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...When his twelve-year-old son's science project turns out to be playing rock music to the house plants, the consequences for the plants, he writes, are surreal: "They're all deaf and two of them are starting to grow zits. And last night our Boston fern's hair caught fire." Stewart remembers when Bombeck wrote at the Dayton paper early in her career. "I wouldn't say that I looked at her and saw she was making $40 million and said, 'God what a racket!' But she certainly gave me an inspiration...
...brilliantly observed caricature of the contemporary urban male. At one point Weaver, representing the reality principle, informs him that he seems less a scientist than a game-show host. But he is a far more amusing figure. He is, in fact, some ultimate Yuppie, seemingly stoned on fern-bar manners, mores and folk wisdom. His utter imperviousness to anything that cannot be comprehended in those basic materialist terms is finally a more potent weapon than all the atomic gadgetry he and his friends carry into their battles with the forces of darkness...
After the game; victorious Coach Fern Flaman, who said he almost took a dive over the boards after Manchurek's goal, said he thought that the presence of his son Terry-who is dying of bone marrow cancer-and his wife, Jean, inspired the team...
There was a little more on the Huskies' minds Monday night than a Beanpot championship. "They won it for them," said Northeastern Coach Fern Flaman referring to his wife and son. In the past three weeks. Flaman's son has been diagnosed as having a serious and the coach's wife recently broke her kneecap in a fall...
Center Randy claimed the Frank Jones Award last year, an honor voted annually to the best defensive forward in New England by the region's sportswriters. Northeastern Coach Fern Flaman describes Bucyk as one of the nation's top two-way players this season...