Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During June, Malin has shuttled back and forth between covering games in New York for NBC, Toronto for ESPN, and his daughter's graduation at Harvard. He also spent a few days in Mexico City in the middle of the tournament...
...claim. It is the challenge of any parent accompanying a child to central Florida: making sure rapturous expectations are not soured by the long lines, infant attention spans and high technology on the fritz. Standing at the entrance to Orlando's Sea World, another father tried to tamp his daughter's restless anticipation: "Hyper down, honey--we're only gonna see a lot of fish...
...last minute people in line stopped a commuter bus; the 40-plus passengers all cheerfully piled out to fill the hole. The first breaks developed in Pennsylvania, but the line wound south to Washington, where it was routed through the White House. Persuaded at the last minute by his daughter Maureen to take part, President Reagan stood somewhat stiffly among staff members' children and friends, using a crib sheet for some lyrics but needing no help for a flawless rendition of America the Beautiful--both verses. (Across from the White House, protesters demonstrated against the President's policies toward...
Susan Minot's first novel is a way to understand the familial instinct at a ^ time when young women have other demands made on their minds and bodies. The point of view is largely that of Sophie, the second daughter, who coolly focuses on incidents that span some dozen years. The book is in nine episodes that could be, with minor adjustments, independent stories. "Hiding," the opening section, locates the emotional poles of the Vincent family. With a mischievous "hee hee hee," Rosie crams herself and her children into a huge linen closet. The point is to play a trick...
...thatched hut in a United Nations encampment two miles inside Thailand last week, when the shells began to come in. "I heard a long whistle in the sky--then boom!" she said later. Sad Rod was one of 59 Khmer Rouge refugees wounded, and her four-year-old daughter was among eleven people killed, in an unusually savage attack by Vietnamese forces inside Kampuchea...