Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vault." After years of using rigid steel poles, Richards must adjust his skills to the new, springy fiberglass type, so he has been taking coaching tips from his son Brandon, 18, the top U.S. high school vaulter. "It's so different you wouldn't believe it," says Dad. "It's like going from straight tumbling to the trampoline...
...been doing endorsement commercials in connection with his first passion, boat racing, and liked it so much he is taking classes with Acting Coach Rick Walters, whose pupils include Barbi Benton and Priscilla Presley. And what is the reaction of the leading man in the White House? "Dad and Nancy think it's great," reports Reagan, who adds that he finally followed the family's thespian tradition because he is "comfortable with who I am now. I wasn't 20 years...
...Secretary John Block. She never got past secretaries. One in Block's office told her, "Honey, there's not enough money in the U.S. Treasury to bail out all the country's farmers." Predicts Elizabeth: "If and when the farm goes for sale--and I think it's when--Dad will probably die and Mom will go bonkers, and I am suing the U.S. Government for bringing this evil on this family...
...Animal House revived the teenpix genre, rites of passage have become Kabuki rituals: popping zits, snapping towels in the locker room, dancing in the streets, ogling the girls in the shower, getting crazy drunk and tearing up the strip in a "borrowed" Porsche and grossing out Mom and Dad. Sentient adults must unite to cry: Enough already! The glandular convulsions of adolescence are just not interesting or complex enough to sustain the plots of half a hundred Hollywood films each year...
Everything changes except that which ought to. The examples of the day are terms of endearment. They never change. What your grandfather called your grandmother, your mother called your dad; and there you are, cooing on the couch, saying the same moronic words to Him or Her: Darling, Honey, Cupcake, Sweets. How easily they spill, the junk food of language--chocolate cremes, mocha centers--not a sensible idea in the box. When Michelle Triola sued Lee Marvin for palimony several years ago, her lawyer had to prove to the court that Marvin did indeed love Michelle. The lawyer produced...