Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday nights on the NBC-TV network sometimes hits the Top Ten in the Nielsen ratings (just like ours, except recorded electronically instead of with marshmallows and thumbtacks) and is playing in about 50 countries. The show is the story of my life in a typical suburban household -- working dad, nonworking mom, teenage daughter just out of braces, chirpy son who dresses up as a vegetable for the school play, and yours truly, the alien who has to hide in the laundry room when anyone comes to call. My Saturday-morning cartoon reminiscences about Melmac have become...
...Superman, O Judge, O Mom and Dad. Hi. I'm not home right now, but if you want to leave a message, just start talking at the sound of the tone...
...same time Pat Robertson had begun his broadcasting. That was never enough. Way back when Pat was a wild kid at Washington and Lee, he had inhaled the vapors of power around his dad's Senate office, where he often visited, sleeping in the Senate gym to be near great events. Yet young Robertson had a tumultuous relationship with his father. Saying he was acting on the Lord's orders to avoid politics, Pat did not help his father in the re-election run of 1966. Willis lost and left the Senate a "broken, defeated man," as described...
...Gore as a child spent his winters in an eighth-floor apartment in the old Fairfax Hotel on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. In the summers he would let his energy explode on his dad's farm in Carthage, where there were a collie named Buff and fish in the pond. Young Al hid behind the apartment doors in 1960 to listen to his father and friends help plot the campaign strategy for Kennedy. Neither Harvard nor those 500 farm acres in Tennessee could turn his head. Politics enticed him back to the Capitol...
...reputation as the "hairdo capital of the world." On Corny Collins' TV dance party, white teenagers perform all the latest dances -- the Madison, the Continental, the Pony -- and are local heroes to every adolescent. Chief among these starlets is Amber Von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick), a snooty princess whose dad (Sonny Bono) is the "richest man in East Baltimore" and whose mom (Debbie Harry), Miss Soft Crab of 1945, pours all her ambition into Amber. Every afternoon the pouty miss must practice the cha-cha and the Mashed Potato under Mom's eagle eye. "I want you to get more close...