Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once did 35 heads on a New Year's Eve") that he enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to study makeup and picked up acting, fencing and mime as well. The response of DeVito's father to the news of this career move came as a shock. "Dad said, 'Great, Dan. I know you can do it.' I wanted to run out of the room and check the address of the house to make sure I was in the right...
When six-year-old Ellis Clark hears the whine of a jet and spots the stubby shape of a 737 overhead, he brags to his playmates, "My dad makes those!" So do many other dads in Seattle, where Boeing, the world's most successful aircraft company, has its home. And those workers share the pride that their children feel. Says Dean Thornton, president of Boeing's commercial-airplane division: "Out of 100,000 Boeing employees, there's not one who doesn't get goose bumps when he sees a 747 in the air. This isn't like making toothpaste...
...tragedy shocked Boeing's employees. But it also seemed to redouble their determination to build the best and safest possible planes. Just ask workers like young Ellis Clark's dad Stanley, who installs 737 flight-control cables. Says he: "I watch something come in one door as thousands of parts and roll out the other door as a ready-to-fly airplane. There's a great satisfaction to that. I can say, 'That baby is mine...
...book. It breaks over the breakfast table, at Thanksgiving dinner and during vacations at the family's summer house in Maine. Time takes big jumps, and each episode finds the Vincents older. The girls begin dating, smoking and drinking, and the boys start sneaking off for marijuana nightcaps. Dad grows increasingly predictable ("nothing more normal than for him to be standing in the shade at a family picnic holding a can of beer"), and then Mother is dead...
...Cruz's freshman roommates hailed from Beverly Hills. He remembers learning that "he was from the poor section of Beverly Hills, because his dad made only $40,000. I thought he was joking--anybody who makes over $20,000 I thought was rich. But for Harvard, he's not rich...