Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when you're through shopping what happens? You bring home your rabbit skirt or your feather duster and it's the wrong size. Or you get a tie for Joe, Bobby Vinton for Nancy, a blue chip for Dad-and Mom feels left out. And of course most sale items are non-returnable. Shopping is fun, but what can you get that the whole family can enjoy...
...horses, a mare and a quarter-horse colt, through the secluded countryside. His parents had just begun payments on a new house when he came home on leave. "Van said he was increasing his life insurance," his mother remembers. "He turned to his father and said: 'Dad, I'm going to pay off this place...
Even a guru has to put up with an occasional dressing-down from his dad. Allen Ginsberg, 43, and his father Louis, 74, were doing one of their tandem poetry readings in Miami when Allen's pro-drug comments ("I am turned on more often than I watch television") drove the elder Ginsberg to prose. "Shame on you, Allen," he interrupted, pointing at his bushy-bearded boy. "You are the guru of the flower generation, and you keep telling them to smoke pot and use LSD, knowing they can get in trouble with the police...
...LOVE YOU, CALL COLLECT and DEAR MOM AND DAD are the work of Art Linkletter, who has for years dealt in mischievous humor. The record is a maudlin appeal to an erring daughter, which Linkletter recorded with his own daughter Diane last April. "Come back, come back," trembles Linkletter's voice. "I gotta do what's right for me," explains Diane. "We love you," says Art, with a choke in his voice. "Call collect." Originally the property of Word Incorporated, specialists in religious records, We Love You and Dad were not immediately released. But when Diane embarked...