Word: dad
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...ancestors could ever have imagined, the Interstates changed how we experience movement through space and time. Not so long ago, when family vacations entailed days poking along in slow-moving cars on even slower roads, the journey ranked almost as high as the destination. To relieve the tedium, Dad made regular stops at places that now seem hopelessly quaint - alligator wrestling joints, tourist cabins, and dinosaur-themed miniature golf-courses...
...Still, along with laughing at Dallas owner Mark Cuban's ranting against the refs like a Little League dad, showering Wade with superlatives became fashionable during the NBA Finals, which ended Tuesday night with Miami's stirring 95-92 victory in Game 6. He certainly deserves most of the compliments - he did average 34 points a game in the finals, in one of the most dominating individual performances in recent NBA history. And indeed, Wade's aerial escapades may eventually catch up to Jordan's. But for the moment, let Michael just be the greatest player of all time...
...income families. Their income isn't going up. And the cost of everything they need just to survive is going up. It makes it harder and harder and harder for them. We want low-income families to have a chance to do what my family did. My dad worked at a mill, I was able to go to college and do extremely well in America. If we want other families to have the same kinds of chances I've had, we're going to have to do something about this. It's the right and moral thing...
...with my dad. I'd sit on his lap, and I'd drive. We're country." BRITNEY SPEARS, singer, in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, on why she drove with her infant son Sean...
...film's central relationship. It is not romantic, between Lois and Clark. It's familial--the bond of two sets of fathers and sons: Jor-El and Superman, then Superman and Jason. Each parent tells his child that he must surpass the old man's feats, improve on Dad's legend. Poignantly, this strength, this divinity, isolates Superman from Earth's humans. He can save them but not be one of them. Lois can love him but never understand...