Word: dad
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...really don’t want my dad fighting in a war that we shouldn’t be fighting,” she says...
...Taste of Others, Bacri's lovelorn character is cranky but harmless; in Look at Me, he's pure bastard. His young wife, Karine, and his put-upon assistant, Vincent, are prime targets for his temper tantrums and cruel sarcasm, but they've got it easy compared to Lolita. Dad invites her to a party and then forgets her outside; he takes her to lunch and spends the whole time on his cell phone; and when he reluctantly agrees to watch her sing in a recital, he walks out in the middle of her solo to write down ideas...
There’s more to the story, though. When Ellroy was ten, his mother was murdered and her body dumped in a ditch. A few years later his dad died too, of natural causes. His last words to his son were “try to pick up every waitress that serves...
This cutting-edge study ritual, however, might be fading fast. “My dad told me not to do it anymore because it would make me stand out too much and look like a freak,” Lawrence says. Soren J. Siebach ’08, Lawrence’s neighbor, has a different take: “Interesting people tend to have interesting study habits,” he says...
...young age. My parents taught me to be proud of being Palestinian before they taught me how to read and write. Your parents and family told you stories about the Promised Land. My parents used take me to the east bank of the Dead Sea, where my dad would carry me on his shoulders and point to the other side of the border and tell me about our home there behind the mountains and between the orchards and the olive trees. While you made it to the Promised Land a long time ago, it was only when Israel signed...