Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which gives Frere Jacques a whole new meaning, can help your child develop the capacities to become a fulfilled speaking subject, and prepare him to confront successfully the challenge offered by each of life's aporias. He'll learn to undermine the binary oppositions that separate work and play, mom and dad, fact and fiction. Of course, this creates problems when Junior lies to mom and swears he's telling the truth...
...course, even if Mom tries her hardest to raise the perfect post-modern child, it won't work. It can't work, by definition. You can't want your kid to be post-modern--that would be a goal, and no telos is allowed. Besides, even if Junior progresses just as we've described, it will be a linear progression, and post-modernism has already foretold the end of linear thought. But every ending is also a beginning...
...message didn't last long, Siegal says. "People said it was too obnoxious. Like my mom...
...Duncan did more than just observe. "It wasn't just to work on my thesis--though everyone thinks it was," Duncan says. "My mom runs a school in the ghetto and I was working there, teaching the kids, tutoring, coaching, that kind of stuff...
...Haselberg, 38, a commodities trader who has cavorted as a performance artist under the name Harry Kipper, Midler declares, "He sees to the heart of things. He respects and supports what I do. And he leads me, too, when I lose my way." Now listen to the new mom, 41, on the subject of Sophie ("not for Sophie Tucker") Frederica ("for my | father Fred") Alohilani ("Hawaiian for 'bright sky,' which is what I always wish for her") von Haselberg: "I adore her. Her face swims before me when she's not there, and I think about her before...