Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea for the lenses goes back to Wise's childhood on the chicken farm his father managed in northern California in the early 1960s...
...Wise's father, Irvin, tried to produce the lenses for chickens after a sales agent told him about a farm where chickens afflicted with cataracts were better-behaved than those with normal sight, and he thought a market might exist for a lens that distorted the bird's sight...
Enter Doug Wilder, divorced, father of three and abortion-rights crusader. Coleman was a tempting target, since he had placated the Republican right by opposing all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. Wilder media consultant Frank Greer prepared an abortion ad, almost certain to be emulated by other pro-choice Democrats in 1990. Framing the issue in age-old conservative rhetoric, the spot featured images of Thomas Jefferson as an announcer intoned, "Doug Wilder believes the government shouldn't interfere in your right to choose. He wants to keep politicians out of your personal life...
...accompaniment. But from the first frame, Disney's suave storytellers cue you to wonderment in their adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Ariel is a mermaid princess with a teenager's yen to travel beyond her world and become part of the forbidden one above. To her father, King Triton of the Mer-people, humans are "spineless, savage, harpooning fish eaters." To Ariel they are skyrockets and sea chanteys and buried treasure -- the thrilling unknown. Then she spies hunky, lonely Prince Eric, and it's impossible love at first sight. For Eric, when he is saved...
Immigration restrictions "reflected the founding father's view of America as a homogeneous society," Takaki said. Many Americans continue to assume that all Asians are recent citizens of the U.S., he said. "Students and faculty still ask you "How long have you been in the country?" he said...