Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vasili Pichul's smash hit Little Vera, the kids look like Sunset Strip punks and act as if they'd just invented adolescent angst. Vera's dad is a drunken oaf, abusing the children who hate him yet cling to him and lie to protect him. He could be the petty dictator of a pre-Gorbachev regime, and his daughter the strident soul of rebellion. In her sharp, defiant voice, you can hear the sound of breaking glasnost...
Tell me, Chuckie, what do your parents do for a living? Your dad's a cop, you say? How much do Boston policemen make these days...
...hour"). Autobiography can be selective. He won't reveal his age (mid-30s by deduction). "It puts you in a category," he insists. "You're not fresh enough to be new." Ask him about his father leaving home, and he sidesteps the question with an ode to his dad's shoes (black-and-white pony skin). Kelly wants to remember Mississippi merry, not Mississippi burning. But one memory sticks: when secondhand books were shipped over from the white elementary school across town, he said, "they'd color in the faces of Dick and Sally so they'd be black when...
...Alex told me that he's excited that he's going to see me more," Fish admits. "But he also told me that he liked boasting to his friends that his dad was the coach of the [Harvard] men's tennis and squash teams...
...this place, Dad," I told him. "The whole place fills up. Standing room. The band goes crazy. And then these bunnies...