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...same time. Well, dig this: Explosions are cool, and so are intact families! That's the message promulgated by Lethal Weapon 4, in which the above-mentioned scene takes place. As Mel Gibson's character comes to terms with impending fatherhood and Danny Glover's with impending grandfatherhood, the film wends its curious way, alternating crashes and neck breakings with scenes of limp domestic comedy--scenes that wouldn't be out of place on Home Improvement, except that Tim Allen never says lines like "This f___ing guy! What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blam! Kapow! Eat Your Peas! | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Flood Threat. Another theme of mutual interest was grandfatherhood, a status Kosygin had enjoyed for 18 years and Johnson for two days. Kosygin welcomed the President to the club, passed along a gold baby cup for Patrick Lyndon Nugent.* Grandchildren?and the world they will live in?became a frequent touchstone. At one point, Johnson told the Russian: "You don't want my grandson fighting you, and I don't want you shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Summit in Smalltown | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

General Dwight D. Eisenhower faced grandfatherhood. Captain John S. D. Eisenhower's wife, Barbara, was expecting a baby in April. It would be an eventful season. The father-to-be, preparing to teach English at West Point next summer, registered at Columbia last week for refresher courses (he would be gone just before the general arrived as president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: A Matter of Opinion | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...title of one article consists in the query, "Are You a Grandfather?"; it goes on to state that "the Class should take some notice of the honorable estate of grandfatherhood, into which, if they be counted, a surprising number of our classmates will be found to have entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Crimpoon", the 17 Year Old Periodical of the Class of 1900 Bobs Up Again--Published Only at "Decent" Intervals. | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

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