Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More Dad, less Mom, urges a guide to raising liberated children
...euphoric audience at Louisiana State University in mid-September, he recalled that in those days one did not need a driver's license: you drove when Dad thought you were up to it. In an interview two weeks ago, he reminisced about a summer job helping to remodel houses at age 14: "At the end of the week, all the contractor had to do was reach in his pocket and take out the cash to pay me. No auditors, no bookkeeping, no withholding of funds...
...course, the film depicts Judy as the naive victim of a sexist society. Her ex-spouse ripped her off. Her dad pushes her around. Her second husband, a horny, gray-haired fool, paws her constantly and, on their wedding night, cajoles her into making love on the bathroom floor. At the exact moment of his premature ejaculation, he has a heart attack and dies on top of Judy. It's like visualizing a bad Rodney Dangerfield joke and recognizing its ugly failure...
Hard times are sending grown children home to Mom and Dad...
...Dad: Let's have a man-to-man talk. (Draws son aside.) Yeah, I know, you're sick of this inflation and that whole swinging singles scene...