Word: lindberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear, candid voice, Lindbergh tackles the daunting challenge of her family's legacy with a delightful mix of honesty, humor and wisdom. And although airplanes do not play a central role in the story she has to tell, this is a story that revolves around transportation none the less. Lindberg intersperses lively descriptions of her father's 6'2" frame folding itself into a Volkswagon Beetle for a quick road-side nap with tales of sleek Pullman trains and Ford Ranch Wagons. Lindbergh writes that her father "may have chosen it [the Ford] more in an attempt to camouflage...
These same unseen currents keep Lindberg'smemoir aloft, an invisible synthesis of style andease of language. The perceived disorder of thefirst few chapters fades away as the reader iscarried by these currents and Lindbergh'scompelling voice as she navigates her family storywith a quiet, determined tenacity that evokes herfather's meticulousness and her mother'stenderness...
Would that Claudia Wallis (founding editor of TIME FOR KIDS) were the editor of TIME FOR ADULTS. It would have saved readers from wading through so many pages on Clinton's problems. ROBERT E. LINDBERG Crystal River...
...girl he loves, Wenonah Lindberg, says they plan to learn about safe sex * and will abstain from intercourse. Her parents have given their blessing to a Dec. 13 wedding in Texas, where 14-year-olds can legally marry. "She has a better chance of contracting HIV from dating than with Ricky," says her mother Debbie. "If she does, it's God's will." Adds Ricky's father: "All we want is for him to be happy...