Word: fam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Currently relegated to in-law status, Frances steps up next term as an official member of the FM fam. This Boston native always has the inside scoop and commits herself to exposing elitism in all its forms, from gold coast housing to swanky parking places. A Web Watcher like none other, Frances will bring a lot to the mag, provided she doesn't run off with some megabyte she meets on Love Connection...
...Parents Weekend eating is to leave the Square. When Cafe of India's all booked, and John Harvard's bursting at the seams, you and your fam will be far, far away...
...story begins as Marty brings his new fiancee home on a stormy Thanksgiving for what should be a lovely dinner with the fam. During the course of the evening it is exposed that Marty and his sister Jackie have had an ongoing incestuous relationship for about ten years. Both have been mentally scarred in their own way, although Jackie obviously more visibly so with her wild fantasies of the Kennedy assassination. For Marty, home represents the insane and the chaotic, even as he is passionately drawn to the seductive charms of his family. He is searching for normalcy shown...
...first year with the team, the defense went from No. 23 in the league to No. 2. "Other teams had to double- and triple-team Reggie," says Favre. "He also totally transformed the locker room." White's influence is not unlike that of Willie Stargell on the "We Are Fam-a-lee" Pittsburgh Pirates, except that the sounds in the clubhouse aren't disco but gospel. The other day, Favre took a ribbing from White after he asked if the gospel chorus some Packers were singing in the shower was Lighter Fluid. (It was Whiter Blood...
...drive-in they're playing Tar Wars. People talk about spending a relaxing week in Rocapulco. Puns may be the lowest form of humor, but in this movie such wordplay is the only possible accompaniment for the pictureplay that runs throughout this merry story of "a modern Stone Age fam-il-ee": newspapers carved in stone; cars powered by feet; prehistoric creatures employed as primitive, parodic versions of contemporary labor-saving devices (dinosaurs are adapted to be lawn mowers, garbage disposals, even a bowling-alley pinsetter). Yes, it's business as it usually was on the old animated TV show...