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...Clinton speech was practically diagrammed. As his own spin doctors told the press, the idea was to connect biography with policy. Hence concern for Mom produces -- presto! -- national health care. Granddad's example triggers commitment to civil rights. Does anyone really believe that "if you want to know why I care so much about our children and our future, it all started with Hillary...
...Shampoo Planet allegory? Tyler's hippie mom, Jasmine, may represent a generation of parents more confused and childlike than their progeny. His crunchy sister, Daisy, is one of those high-schoolers who echoes the hippies, self-righteously dedicating their lives and hairstyles to their doomed planet...
...part, Zmeskal describes herself as stubborn (her mom says she gets this from coach Karolyi) and perfectionist (this from her dad). She is mildly irritated when people mistake her silence during competition for shyness. "I'm not quiet," she says. "I like laughing and being with my friends." Away from practice and performances, there is a teenager who has graduated from New Kids on the Block to Boyz II Men, likes to hang out in malls and thinks it would be fun to act in a soap opera. As down-to-earth as she is, though, Zmeskal is just superstitious...
...body and putting them back. Sometimes I think they are going to kill me." The young man would see huge rats scurrying about his room, and believed others were reading his mind. He heard voices he attributed to "just God and Jesus, but sometimes they sound like my mom...
...umpteenth time two earnest parents (Kate Burton and Michael Brandon) who seem inordinately befuddled at the job of raising a family, and two teenagers who have little on their minds except sex. The show's attitudes are hip, but the plot twists are strictly Donna Reed: in one episode, Mom advises 14-year-old Jesse that he ought to be more frank in trying to woo his girlfriend. When he goes too far, the girl's father shows up on their doorstep and punches (who else?) Jesse's dad in the mouth. A laugh track tinkles wanly in the background...