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...meeting Wagner and finding him to be "a family man, pleasant and low key." In fact, says Dad, Los Angeles was not at all what you might expect: "Everyone we met there was very down-to- earth, very reasonable, very real." Just regular folks like the rest of her grownup friends...
...audience whisper, "Hide! Hide!" But Big Bear finds Little Bear, and this time Big Bear plants a large paw on Little Bear's crotch. Big Bear threatens to spank Little Bear if Little Bear tells. But in wanders Big Moose, who advises Little Bear to tell a grownup-like a teacher-then goes off to confront Big Bear...
...Dine dinners on sale in the mid-1970s (price: $1.35), buyers thought they were getting a macaroni dinner along with some wine to sip. The wine was actually a salty liquid intended for use in cooking the noodles. Trading on its success with infants, Gerber tried to market such grownup fare as beef burgundy and Mediterranean vegetables. The company's mistake was to put the food in containers that looked like baby-food jars. Gerber compounded its problem by labeling the product SINGLES. Later research showed that adults generally dislike being pegged as singles who eat alone, even...
NEARLY EVERY young child has hidden in doorways, crept downstairs, and lain awake in bed at night, listening to the hushed grownup voices he is not meant to hear. These glimpses into the adult world often give the child far greater insight than his parents realize. In the opening scenes of an enchanting new Australian film, Careful He Might Hear You, a wide-eyed six-year-old boy lies awake as his anxious parents discuss his fate and admonish each other for speaking too loudly, afraid they will let him hear too much. This preoccupation with sheltering the boy from...
...with the two white Senators running for the Democratic nomination. Whatever errors he has made elsewhere in the campaign (stupid, private references to Jews as "Hymie," his close relationship to a poisonous character who heads the Nation of Islam), Jackson has sometimes sounded in the debates like the only grownup in the race. In any case, the spectacle of a young black man treated equally with two whites in a fight for the most powerful office on earth would have been unthinkable in the U.S. a generation...