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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Notes Steve: "Dad always watches me and makes sure he's not playing golf when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

Take your average family from Los Angeles: Dad's gotta have a car to get to work. Mom's gotta have a car to run all those errands. Juedye (Judy) has to have one to get to the health food store. Mack needs a pickup truck so he can haul around babes in the back of it (you really shouldn't show your face at a beach down there unless you got a pick up to haul around babes in). And little Flowertruth has to have one for her 16th birthday. And each family has a couple of spares...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Of Smog and Stucco | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...Dad, William Wharton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Jun. 29, 1981 | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...young Mr. M behave like the most spoiled of 12-and-under beasts. The setting was, in fact, that famous tennis emporium at Port Washington. The air conditioning was too strong; I was cold and sweating and losing to yet another little creep I should have blown away. My Dad was watching from behind the glass windows, high above. I was 12 years old and my second serve was floating...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Big Mac and His Flying Raquet | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

...crack his racquet against the hard artificial surface. "Goddammitfuckit...crack!" From what I could gather--and I obviously should have been paying more attention to my own match and less to the one next door--the chunky kid was killing his opponent. But he kept on screaming. Maybe his dad was watching...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Big Mac and His Flying Raquet | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

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