Word: fatherness
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...race but for Hispanic origin as well. A popular rally cry during the push to allow multiple races was, Why should a person with one black parent and one white parent be forced to choose between them? Indeed, why should a person with a Hispanic mother and non-Hispanic father be any different...
...public image, but it won't be easy. First up, he has to come totally clean, and he has to do so in front of a camera. On Jan. 21, just shy of Quinn Hunter's second birthday, Edwards finally issued a statement that copped to his being her father. "It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter, and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me," the press release said. Nuh-uh. For a doozy like that, you have to front up personally, say the experts. "I can't emphasize enough - the tone...
...soon. We wait in dread for the climactic scene - the grief-gasm if you will - for the rest of the movie, and it's agonizing trying to figure out if she's about to fall into a pond or catch something from one of her father's breeding pigeons. Creation is an exercise in the maudlin that would try the emotional patience of even someone who can tear up at the right television commercial (guilty as charged...
Ann’s visit also triggers a re-examination of earlier strife surrounding the sale of defective airplane parts to the government by the company run by her father and Joe during the war. Suddenly, the troubles of the past re-surface, unable to be denied any longer. Responsibility must be taken, and natural order restored...
...there's powerful stuff going on in Denmark. "Bulbjerg," by Naja Marie Aidt, tells of a family outing derailed by an accident, then by the revelation of betrayal. Before things started going south, the father had planned to show his son a bit of Danish history, a German bunker from World War II. "We were supposed to have had a nice little talk about the Occupation," he notes. The emotions unleashed in this tale couldn't be contained in any nice little talk. They are painfully universal. Yet you know exactly where in the universe you are. This...