Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is a stickup." With some of the student movement's talent for converting disrespect to symbolic desecration, the occupation forces moved into Kirk's office, smoked his cigars (one student with his feet perched on Kirk's desk, an act of smirking and virtually Oedipal lese majeste -- O.K., Dad, whatcha gonna do about it, huh?) and, after six days of occupation, left the place a mess...
Nonetheless, she was hesitant to launch a new campaign that would inevitably bare their private lives. "As much as she supported Dad, she was a bit apprehensive," says Daughter Andrea, who along with her brother John strongly lobbied their father to get back in. Yet Lee found herself touched by the thousands of letters that poured into Troublesome Gulch, Colo., urging her husband to run again. She watched with growing concern as he became more restless and depressed...
Does Williams, who says his improv work is "like playing -- child's play," see in the boy a time-warp mirror image of his own fecund creativity? Seems so, as you listen to proud dad: "I watch Zachary absorbed in playing with his rockets, I listen to him whispering his multiple voices, and I think, 'That's where it comes from. That's the source.' " Williams tells a story of Zachary at his "gestalt" day-care center. "The teacher was playing tapes of noises for the kids to identify. One was of a baby crying, and a little girl said...
...career change was only the latest vicissitude of life as the son of the former Delaware governor. "When I was 17 my dad raised the state drinking age from 18 to 21. Imagine explaining that to your classmates. It was a tough year...
...what will I most remember about Harvard many years hence? Probably the walks along the Charles with Jenny, the way we had to scrape and scrimp after Dad cut us off and the look on her face when she died...oh, wait, that wasn't me, it was Ryan O'Neal. Which just goes to show you, art imitates life and sometimes it's vice versa. Other times, it's the other way around. Go figure...