Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grenada's other neighbors in the crescent of Caribbean island nations, the coup was particularly bad news. Afflicted though many of them are with depressed economies, until now their citizens have been spared violent Latin American-style takeovers. At their meeting in Trini dad, the foreign ministers and heads of state of CARICOM, the organization of Caribbean nations, pondered the crisis in Grenada but understood full well they could not undo the damage...
...daily to make ends meet, the blood ought to coagulate with the exceptional tenacity. Sometime in a young man's evolving life--perhaps when sitting around listening to his parents rehash the good old days of labor unionism, perhaps when receiving his first summer job through his union head dad welding iron ore--a bell rings in his head and a credo resounds loud and clear: the only two loyalties in life that count are union and family, and so long as those two pillars of institutionalism remain intact, life will breed security, happiness, and the American dream. So long...
...Lear." (Then what's Dallas? Oedipus Tex?) This and the other new dramas offer the easy thrills of a paperback bought at a bus terminal; even the season's best sitcoms, Just Our Luck and Mr. Smith, are no more demanding than a vintage comic book in Dad's attic. Still, trash has its charms. Herewith a look at ten fall shows, good, bad and same-different...
...They feel like they're at home here," he adds. "They can put their feet up. They can borrow money. Mrs. B. and I are sort of The Mom and Dad away from home...
...known to millions of TV viewers as Kitten, the youngest member of the Anderson family on Father Knows Best. But when the program ended its run in 1960 after six years, Lauren Chapin, now 38, lost a lot more than a dad who could cope wisely with any domestic crisis. Out of work and spurned by her alcoholic mother, Chapin spent the next 15 years in a twilight zone of casual sex, drugs and jail for forgery. Then, one epochal day, she walked into the Eagle's Nest church in Irvine, Calif. She recalls, "When the pastor said...