Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Samantha has chosen to stay behind and share the tumbledown family home in Hopewell, Ky., with her uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a veteran damaged by the war in some way he refuses to name. Now in the summer after her high school graduation, she comes upon the letters her dad wrote from Nam, and eventually his diary. Using this material to chart her way, she sets out, innocent but determined, to reimagine her father and the long-ago war that took him from...
...rich and suntanned. (And white--my friend Ron, Wilt Chamberlain and Zina Garrison's family were the only Black people I saw in the stands.) Ticket prices are out of control. Most tickets aren't even for sale. Unless you know Mr. Tepper (like my friend's dad did) or Mr. Trump or Revlon or Nissan or Unisys, you can stay home and listen to Mary Carillo yammer...
...series of vignettes, in which life's everyday epiphanies crowd out the sanctified rituals of birth, marriage and death. Eileen and her husband share a meal whose chill is punctuated only by their separate smiles at a radio comedian. Mother falls asleep with memories in her ear: Dad rasping for her to come to him, her young children answering the question "How much do you love me?" with an eager "A pound of sugar!" Davies recalls all these sights and sounds -- so horrifying, so beautiful -- and, with his unflinching style, turns anecdote into artistry. The distant voices still live...
...They tried to sell us egg foo yung"). The recollected terror of a vicious father can be tempered by his early death. The daughter who vowed, "If I ever get a gun, I'll blow your bleedin' brains out," will sob on her wedding day, "I want me dad...
...family enforcer among the hired handlers, Bush was often a bristly presence. "Junior," as Washington insiders called him, was out of his element back East, uncomfortable in his father's shadow once again. Of the five Bush children, George, the eldest, had always been the most drawn to Dad's patterns of endeavor. What rebellion he waged was stylistic. He became the real Texan in the family -- chewing tobacco, using barnyard humor, settling in the state's western corner -- the one harboring what his aunt Nancy Ellis calls a "slightly outrageous streak...