Word: elders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael's actor father Kirk in his early gangster roles. As it happens, the lizardly Gekko is a potential father figure for sly Fox; the other is Bud's dad, a working-class hero who is a mechanic at the small airline that Gekko may soon devour. The elder Fox is played by Charlie Sheen's own dad Martin; and to complete the motif, Stone has dedicated Wall Street (as he did Salvador) to his stockbroker father, who died two years ago. The entire film is in fact a ferocious meditation on the dilemma of a son choosing his father...
...studies, Mao found single children "faring better than those with siblings" in terms of intellectual development. She contends that some children with siblings are even worse brats. "They beat their elder brothers," Mao says. "The decisive factor is not whether one is a single child. It is a question of parental attitude and education." As an ancient Chinese saying goes, "Bad parents produce bad children." Most single-child parents are survivors of the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Many failed to finish their own schooling, and they are often ill equipped to rear children properly. Some of these parents apply immense pressure...
...Adam was influenced by his very liberal upbringing as his father and uncle are civil liberties lawyers" and his cousin is in law school, the elder Dershowitz said...
...civil liberties case similar to the one his nephew battled, Dershowitz the elder successfully defended two former Harvard students who were arrested for showing Deep Throat seven years ago in Quincy House to raise money to fix a broken movie screen...
...hadn't ended when I was seven years old." In that year her parents joined a quasi-religious organization whose members were mostly affluent and conservative. "They wanted to save the world," says Glenn's younger sister Jessie. "In the process, this cult split up our family." The elder Closes moved to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), where Glenn's father, a physician, ran a clinic. The children were left in various boarding schools in Switzerland and Connecticut...