Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another field day--a big Crimson plus. On the other side. UMass has running back Garry Pearson, who has averaged nearly 160 yards rushing through his first two games. One for the Minutemen. Then there's the fact that Dr. J went to UMass, and my dad--one of the great people in this world--graduated from there. Still, you gotta love that Harvard offensive line. Sorry, Dad...
...cardboard box sits incongruously on an antique coffee table in an ornate office at the State Department. On the top of the box is an inscription scrawled in red marker: FOREIGN POLICY KIT. FOR THE BEST DAD IN GOVERNMENT. Inside are a tiny American flag, some Band-Aids, dice, a flashlight, a compass, a pacifier and a box of Anacin. "Everything I need," laughs George Shultz...
...down-and-out dad, the savvy offspring and the car trip through the South, all set against the dusty backdrop of the Great Depression-it worked for Ryan and Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon, why not for Clint Eastwood, 52, and his son Kyle, 14? In Honky Tonk Man, opening at Christmas, Eastwood plays an itinerant musician heading cross country to try for a shot at the Grand Ole Opry. "Kyle plays my nephew in the film," says he. "I demoted him from son, but he's still enjoying it." So apparently is the star. Eastwood plays...
...make a muscle, son." A sunny summertime vision out of the Norman Rockwell past. Dad, middleaged, healthy and proud, wears the smile of a successful Little League coach. Bobby or Timmy or Pete, a freckle-faced 9 or 10, crooks his slim arm and strains to pop that first bicep. To the side is a Betty Crocker mom, beaming at her new young man. And off in the back, pug nose sniffing in disdain, is Kid Sis. "Boys' games!" her elfin derision seems to say. "Showing you're strong. Proving yourself. Making a muscle ? eeeeeuuuuu...
...mores on the traditional. A description of a formal wedding--including exhaustive advice on every member of the wedding party--coming less than 50 pages after the proper form for informing a not-so-familiar lover of a social disease vividly proves how far things have come since Grand Dad '05 stalked the Yard...