Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party's over. The days of drinking are done. For years Harvard operated under the theory of in loco parents; your House Master could allow you to have beer just like Mom or Dad could. Now, with the drinking age being raised to 21, Harvard has gotten scared. The new legal limit encompassed a lot more students than the old legal limit. Harvard, instead of waiting to see if in loco parentis could hold up in court, has decided to enforce the new drinking...
...Washington D.C. native--a sports fan and one terrific mom--last week predicted that William & Mary would beat Harvard 20-14. The final score was Tribe 21, Crimson...
...autumn ritual, like football games and the first frost. America's A team of actresses, who would never accept summer-movie roles as Rambo's guerrilla girlfriend or Michael J. Fox's mom, invigorate Hollywood's ration of serious films. The seminar is in session, film scholars. It is the season to pay attention, even if you want to cut class...
...wonders, then, whether in some other life, in some other house by the sea, mom gave Marlon Brando the same advice. Little else could explain his guileful performance in LAST TANGO IN PARIS (Sack Charles), though mother would never use her muffin butter quite the way Brando does here...
...things real people talk about, like when the garbage will be picked up and why the landlord is such a grouch. Gibbs' hangdog cynicism is funny, and the writers have a good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures out the ruse and turns them down. "Told you it wouldn't work," says the daughter as they stalk out of the room. Snaps the friend: "Well, you set it up wrong." TV's First Father himself, Bill Cosby...