Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symposium also included videotape of an interview with parents whose 14-year-old daughter committed suicide 13 years...
...anonymity soon attracted oddballs. A father in New Mexico came home to find his 13-year-old daughter being visited by a 26-year-old man who had posed as a teen on the phone. The stranger brought his own bottle. Two Albuquerque callers used Scoopline to arrange a drug purchase. Profanity became common on the network; sexual propositions were offered. Eavesdropping parents and some teenagers complained to the telephone companies...
...life in Amerika is not hard to recognize. People still complain about the government and the hard economic times, only now it is the Soviets who are to blame. Parents still have fights with their children, only now the argument over whether Dad has pulled strings to get his daughter into a dance company has nasty overtones of political collaboration. Even the smallest details are shrewdly familiar: the bored, hollow-eyed bureaucrat who processes Devin out of prison ("You got a red-tag file . . . It's probably screwed up, most of 'em are"); a forlorn production of The Fantasticks...
Carol Burnett's childhood might have produced a tragedian instead of a comedian. In this autobiography disguised as a letter to her three daughters, she runs through a series of blackout sketches that are by turns sad, hilarious and grotesque. Burnett grew up in a shabby Hollywood apartment with her beloved maternal grandmother. Nanny used to tie a rolled Christian Science Monitor around her waist so her "insides wouldn't fall out." She took Carol to the movies; then, "when it was time to go home, we'd go to the bathroom, and she'd empty all the toilet paper...
Last November, more than 70 protesters were arrested in two separate demonstrations, including 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman and Amy Carter, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter...