Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence. And nepotism. Cowan's father was president of CBS--forced to resign in the midst of the Quiz Show scandals in the fall of 1959. "When home from Choate on vacation," Cowan tells us, "I would wear one of Dad's ties, with a design composed of dozens of CBS eyes...
...very much a part of our lives during those years. A specially carpented six-foot long cabinet housing three television sets, which made it possible for my father to watch all network programming simultaneously, dominated my parent's bedroom. We called it the 'three-eyed monster' but our attitude toward the industry itself was more respectful...
...sisters have at least had a strong family to return to. The Roches-Irish, Catholic, suburban, middle class-are the subject of a couple of the sisters' best songs and cast a long shadow over most of the rest. Their father, John A. Roche, developed and marketed a language-skills course on tape called Speechmaster, and spent a fair portion of his off-hours encouraging his daughters to sing. Maggie, at 27 the eldest of the sisters, started writing songs at the age of eight. She and Terre performed them first in the family living room in Park Ridge...
Instead, the script drops many heavy-handed hints of incestuous longings between father and daughter and visits much trendy brutality on the poor prince for daring to imagine that blonds might be more fun. There is also a nasty ritual defloration sequence involving the girl he was supposed to marry before Mia came along...
...laughs that shake the tiny thoraxes We thank the father of all Loraxes; May childhood problems be illusory And joys live on in Dr. Seussery...