Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hundreds of dollars of balances that were building on her cards never registered on her radar, she admits, until her father discovered the mounting debts this past summer. Only then did Hunter-Rivera begin to clean...
...presidents should represent the best of us. And when they represent the worst of us--as in the case of Nixon--the American people themselves begin to have a feeling of self-doubt, as was the case in the aftermath of Watergate. You weren't even alive. As your father will tell you, the 70s was a depressing time...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo and speaks the lines, "This wall is actually a wall, a thing / Come up between us, shutting me away." One of the most jarring moments of Reagan's otherwise happy childhood is when he comes home one night to find his father passed out, drunk, on the snow of their front yard, his arms spread out as if he were crucified. At the end of the book, Morris charts Reagan's trip to Bergen-Belsen, and the photographs of the white corpses shown upon a black background in cruciform position that...
...guns and strippers, or some wicked combination of both. And while I can easily revel in South Park, if some poor bloke happens to stumble upon any movie with Sally Field, it is indeed a sign of the apocalypse. I once caught (caught is the key word here) my father whimpering over a Lifetime rerun of Designing Women when Delta Burke leaves Sugarbaker's for good, and I have to admit I found it rather, um, disturbing. Trix are for kids, and Lifetime is for women...
...went along. "It seems to be a very enlightened group," he says. "Both Bradley and Gore are free-traders ? Gore?s biggest moment was defending NAFTA against Perot ? and there hasn?t been a word about that." Of course, George W. Bush?s own dad was the father of NAFTA, and the unions know that bickering over this Democrat or that only helps...