Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a random cross sampling of American life. Chief (Ice Cube) is described as "on a paid four-month vacation" from his job as a baggage handler at the Detroit Airport. Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze), is a boyish, impetuous redneck, and Troy Barlow (an impish Mark Wahlberg), a new father, is his best friend and role model...
...Foxes met through his Harvard roommate; John Fox's father was a dean at Harvard Business School; and the Foxes' son Thomas graduated from the college in 1995. John Fox was a Harvard undergraduate and a dean of the college; Julia Fox, a Wellesley undergraduate, was a Harvard community volunteer and well-known faculty spouse...
...closer, he's got a funny way of showing it. Even while extending another GOP olive branch to Pat Buchanan (well, mostly to his supporters), Bush hinted Wednesday night that the nascent Perot-Buchanan Reform party alliance was an attempt to do to Bush what they did to his father: Bring him down. "I've always thought the 1992 campaign was hard for my dad to get traction in the race because of, first, Patrick J. Buchanan, and then Ross Perot inflicted a series of cuts," the younger Bush said on a campaign stop in California. "I hope the people...
...Harvard I sometimes forget about sacrifice, American idealism, true freedom. The self-important attitude of the place kind of does that to you. But when I'm at home in my New York mountains, with my brother who's a West Point cadet and my father who didn't go to college but served twice in Vietnam as a Marine, nothing seems more important than defending those things. Maybe I've just got a sentimental attachment to my brother's "Duty, Honor, Country" and my dad's "Semper Fideles." But I think it's more than that. In June...
...There's a feeling in the culture that something's gone awry," Faludi said. "It's been a year of schoolyard shootings, men going ballistic, and a political campaign shaping up to be a father-son drama...