Word: papa
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...hard to miss, but the movie and Neeson seem unaware of them. What they do understand are the conventions of the genre. And one is that when an action hero warns his daughter about imminent danger - say, the potential perils of spending the summer in Paris with a classmate - Papa knows whereof he preacheth. Perhaps some angel has whispered to him that if the girls did just go safely museum-hopping, it wouldn't be a Luc Besson movie...
USAGE: "Boomers want to pick what grandkids will call them: Meet Glamma and Papa Doc." --Wall Street Journal...
...singer sound like a stalker. In the movies he was the voice of Audrey II, the voracious plant ("Feed me!") that's really a Mean Green Mother From Outer Space in Little Shop of Horrors. Another Motown treasure, songwriter-producer Norman Whitfield (I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, War), died...
...protect their identities. "There was Franco, Tarzan, Texas, and Zorro," he said. "He saw a book with names of dozens of police under the unit's payroll, he said, including officers from many nearby towns and federal agents stationed there. The corrupt police were also given aliases, including Papa and Brother...
...Papa, 22, is from Senegal and has lived in Spain for a year. He had heard that growers weren't hiring foreigners this year. "But it's the same as what you think when you leave Africa. You hear that it's hard to find work in Europe, you hear that you need papers, but you think it's not true, that...