Word: dad
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...define the golden era of rock in the 1960s and '70s, are suddenly cool again. Some of the new fans are baby boomers nostalgic for their youth. But to the surprise and delight of music executives, increasing numbers of the iPod generation are also purchasing turntables (or dusting off Dad's), buying long-playing vinyl records and giving them a spin...
From Dark Victory to Patch Adams, Hollywood never found a cancer ward it couldn't spiff up, a death sentence that didn't have emotional uplift. In another new movie, The Savages, the issue ostensibly addressed is that of middle-aged siblings saddled with a cranky dad suffering from Alzheimer's ("Al What's-his-name's Disease," as a character says in the Tom Stoppard play Rock 'n' Roll). But that ordeal turns out to be the work of but a month, not decades - just long enough for the brother and sister to learn the cleansing importance of family...
...single parents, however, eking out one-on-one time can be a daunting task. As a widowed mom, I know firsthand - we do the best we can with the time we have. Single dad Ron Barth says his autistic 9-year-old, Daniel, "dominates everything, so I have to make special moments with Nicole [age 15], like taking her shopping - without Daniel." But, says Barth, "There aren't enough of those moments...
...short, holidays suck, especially the ones you spend outside your own home," says dad, Bounds. "They're full of the most dreaded thing in an autistic life - unstructured time. People get together with relatives and friends and talk - which is sort of hard to do when your child has your sister-in-law's cat by the throat and is about to put him in the food processor...
...have an overarching philosophy of government? What do you think its proper role should be? What should it do and what should it not do? My parents came to Baton Rouge [from India] when my mom was pregnant with me. My dad was just freshly out of school. He was one of nine kids, the only one that went to high school. His family didn't have running water. He was the middle child, the only one that went to school, and he had a strong belief that if you worked hard and got an education, then you could have...