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...Family Ties” lie in the precocity of Alex, Mallory, Jennifer and even little Andy. Their maturity and wisdom created a world in which the children often raised their parents—as well as a political dichotomy shared at dinner tables across the country, as the flower children’s offspring embraced the Reagan Revolution...

Author: By Scott G. Bromley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keatonomics | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...Keaton children. The Keatons entered our homes 20 years ago as the MTV generation entered the world. Yet the Keatons were by no means a stereotypical yuppie family, let alone a typical sitcom family. The Keaton parents were hippies to the bone—Elyse a folk-singing flower girl and Steven a draft-dodging pacifist. To their dismay, they birthed four yuppies-to-be, led by one Alex P. Keaton, a card-carrying Young Republican with a blazer over his shoulder, a tie around his neck and a picture of William F. Buckley on his wall...

Author: By Scott G. Bromley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keatonomics | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...harassers feared my vitriolic quips or my confrontational finger snaps, they had stopped whispering, spitting and throwing. My flamboyance had worn them out. Well, most of them. One morning in October, as I left for school, I realized the mailbox was missing. I found my mother’s flower pots shattered on our front steps. I saw the word “faggot” etched in the driveway. I smelled urine on the front porch. At least my family wouldn’t have to decorate for Halloween—the white toilet paper hanging from our trees...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Flaming Valentine | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...online data broker--an information mercenary who may not care whether you're trying to track down a long-lost cousin or steal her identity. Johnson went so far as taking the subway to the suspect's address to match his name to an apartment number, noting there were flower boxes in his windows. "I felt like Angela Lansbury," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Identity Thieves | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...tawny, high cheek-boned, all-American kind of girl. She’s got chocolate brown eyes and windblown, I-combed-this-with-my-fingers and washed-with-tree-bark-herbs hair that really looks good wrapped in a simple leather string. Her assorted Laura Ashley-esque flower print dresses and full petticoat skirts are unadorned, yet ethereal. Jane bakes bread. She knows how to make those Little House on the Prairie daisy chains and how to tell if it’s going to rain in a fortnight by smelling the tree moss. Jane thought of leaving...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: See Jane. See Jane Sit. | 1/23/2002 | See Source »

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