Word: dad
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...buckled to his seat, undid the strap in a daze. "I ran away and the plane blew up and it knocked me down." He was hospitalized with minor cuts and burns. His father, also hurled from the cabin, was severely burned. Said the son: "God must have been with Dad and me." Robert Miggins, 45, a high school teacher in Plymouth, Minn., ran from the wreckage with his clothes afire. He suffered burns over 90% of his body. The three were the only survivors. Sixty-eight died, making it the worst U.S. air tragedy since 1982, when a Boeing...
LoPresti is also a famous name in Cambridge politics. His dad, Michael Lopresiti Sr., lost a bitter 1952 congressional race to none other than Tip O'Neill, and the younger LoPri man is known to be itching to avenge his father's loss 33 years...
...retired to Moscow--as a displaced person, isolated from his best friends and instincts. Chris Boyce (Timothy Hutton) feels isolated too, trapped in America; but here Schlesinger dares not flirt with political or visual subtlety. Everyone is an oaf but our lad. Mom (Joyce Van Patten) is dithery, and Dad (Pat Hingle) scares the falcon, and Chris' girlfriend (Lori Singer) is one big vacant California erogenous zone. His treason is pinned on mid-America, not so much for the evil of its ways as for the banality of its style. Affluence is flatulence; good intentions are to laugh at; filial...
What conclusions are these TV treatises reaching about the family problems they tackle? One message is distressingly familiar: Mom and Dad, more often than not, are at fault. If parents have not overtly caused the problem (like the molesting father in Something About Amelia), they are, at the very least, insensitive or inattentive to the gathering storm clouds. In Not My Kid, the fact that the parents are completely surprised to learn of their daughter's drug problem is seen as proof that they have fallen down on the job. They are forced to send her to an institution, where...
...mainly from his father, he is inclined to let it go, like the football. " 'Throw from your ear,' he told me, 'don't wind up. Do it that way now, even though it's harder, and when you're bigger and stronger, you'll be glad.' " Asked if his dad, who drives a newspaper truck in Pittsburgh, happened to have a particular love of sports, Marino replies perfectly, "He happened to have a particular love of his children." For a happy period, their work and school shifts coincided. "He would hit me grounders, or we'd throw the football...