Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tribute to our fighting men, in whatever foreign adventure. The intelligentsia can credit Platoon with expressing, in bold cinematic strokes, Stone's grand themes of comradeship and betrayal. And the average youthful moviegoer -- too young to remember Viet Nam even as the living-room war -- may discover where Dad went in the 1960s and why he came home changed or came home in a body...
...East River and said, 'My father is right. I'm a bum.' I felt the solution was total anonymity. I had to atone. So I joined the Army. They'd cut my hair, and I'd be a number. To me the American involvement was correct. My dad was a cold warrior, and I was a cold-war baby. I knew that Viet Nam was going to be the war of my generation, and I didn't want to miss it. I must say, my timing was impeccable." If the young man had failed as Rimbaud, he might make...
...SwedishAmerican Hospital in Rockford, Ill., is offering a clever gimmick to lure obstetrics customers: Dial-A-Dad, a service in which beepers are given to expectant fathers so they can be paged within a 30-mile radius when mothers go into labor...
Kopit has certainly dramatized some weighty matter in the past--genocide (Indians), stroke victims (Wings), and dead fathers (the classic Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad). But nuclear holocaust is of a whole other dimension, and Kopit here chooses to take a personal approach...
...dolls meant to be cared for, changed and charged up with generous quantities of batteries to operate their voices and make their faces move. Baby Talk comes up with provocative dialogue like "I love you" and "Turn me over" (lines certain to elicit a lively first-time response from Dad); Cricket sticks mostly to songs and stories...