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Sayles tries to keep Sam's never-ending search from getting too ponderous and repetitive by introducing one other major plot line. Basically, this consists of a colonel, Delmore, (Joe Morton) just transferred to the area as he struggles not to deal with his deadbeat dad Otis (Ron Canada) who always lived there. Since these issues are standard--wild father, overcompensatingly strict son, and day-dreaming third generation--these sub-plots are more valuable for the amusing ironies that come forth. For example, Otis keeps a back-shed museum of black Seminole artifacts and doesn't fail to point...
While Dole has been trapped in a vacuum of his own making--no policies, no message--Clinton has plugged away with two new family-values proposals a week. They are popular, conservative, small-bore measures designed to show his concern over truancy, deadbeat dads, burning churches and whatever else is polling well. "You guys [in the press] don't always pay much attention," says a Clinton adviser, "but people eat this stuff...
...Addenda provides a useful glimpse into the netherworld of post-contemporary wordsmithery. Control freak is here, as are dream team, deadbeat dad, drive-by (shooting), granny dumping, latte, managed care, mosh pit, outsource (but not downsize) and wellness...
...seems there is an opposition group on every issue, and one has emerged in California that might be called the Second Wives and the Deadbeat Dads Who Love Them Club. The day after Clinton announced the new crackdown, Dianna Thompson, spokeswoman for the 5,000-member Coalition of Parent Support--and a second wife herself--appeared on the Today show to criticize child-support orders that put "a real financial burden on the second family...[and] really don't reflect the cost of raising a child...It's more like a life-style support." Now here's a group that...
...have already left one brood behind. But even they may not be any match for market forces. New York City is considering a proposal from investment bankers at Morgan Stanley to get immediate payments to first families by selling high-interest bonds based on the assets of deadbeat parents. The Mommy-munis would be backed by the full force of the child-support-collection apparatus...