Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early leader was seven-term Congressman Barry Gold water Jr., 43, of Los Angeles, whose famous name has enormous appeal for the state's conservatives. BARRY GOLDWATER FOR THE U.S. SENATE, A TRADITION goes his slogan, and one TV spot shows him sitting on the Capitol steps with dad. Goldwater, however, now appears to be running neck and neck with Wilson and another seven-term Congressman, Paul (Pete) McCloskey of Menlo Park, near San Francisco. A Los Angeles Times poll released last week showed Wilson leading Goldwater 25% to 22%, while McCloskey was favored by 21% of the voters...
...failed to detonate. The ship limped slowly up the Bay of San Carlos, giving off smoke, and British bomb-disposal experts were sent aboard to see if they could defuse the bomb. The main assignment fell to Staff Sergeant James Prescott, 37, of the Royal Engineers. "One twitch, Dad, and you're dead," he had once told his father about his work. The bomb exploded and he died instantly...
...theater arts major. Her 36-24-36 frame may lack some of the oomph of her mother's famed 40-18-36 curves, but Mariska feels that maternal comparisons are onerous. An immediate goal is related to an old title of her father's. "My dad was Mr. Universe," she says, "so it would be fun for me to be Miss Universe...
...center of both E. T. and Poltergeist is the suburban family, as normal and American as Pop-Tarts. In Poltergeist, Dad (Craig T. Nelson), late 30s, sells tract houses, reads biographies of Ronald Reagan and furrows his brow to watch his hairline recede. Mom (Jobeth Williams), early 30s, keeps house, sings TV beer jingles and tucks in her son under a Star Wars bedspread. If this seems the derisory stuff of sitcoms, it is not. "I never mock suburbia," Spielberg declares. "My life comes from there." He likes these people and communicates that affection. Faced with balky children...
...Nashville. Still, Arthur was bred to be a horseman, and he started his own smaller enterprise-away from Claiborne-Stone Farm. In partnership with Leone J. Peters, he is the owner of Gato del Sol. The Hancocks finally have a Derby winner. "I want to dedicate it to my dad," said Arthur Hancock. "He taught me all I know...