Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line connected, it was the whipped cream, the sprinkles, the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae," said Marty Rogol, executive director of USA for Africa, the parent foundation of Hands Across America. "But the key is that the event is not the ending, but the beginning...
...been a while since Bill Cosby regaled audiences with stories of how he, Fat Albert and friends careened their way around parental authority to enjoy the gooey fruits of childhood. Cosby, 48, has grown some since (and his audiences have grown even more). Right now his comic focus is on how adults survive having kids. Thus the blurb makers, with more cause than usual, have dubbed him "America's Favorite Father." And just in time for Father's Day, | by no marketing coincidence, Cosby is out with a spanking-new best seller that rollicks through his mostly tried and mostly...
Like color TV of that era, stereo is being pushed most aggressively by NBC (whose corporate parent, RCA, is a major manufacturer of stereo TV sets). The network offers 21 programs in stereo, including The Cosby Show, Amazing Stories and The Tonight Show. ABC and CBS have been notably cooler to the new technology. But two ABC series, The Insiders and Fortune Dane, were presented in stereo this season, as was the Grammy Awards on CBS in February. Several PBS series and much cable programming (including MTV) are also offered in stereo...
...Jesse Jackson is a man with a mission, sometimes several missions at once. He surely must be the only person to have confronted Walter Mondale (in - the 1984 Democratic presidential sweepstakes), Kentucky Fried Chicken (whose parent company signed an agreement with Jackson in 1982 to make it easier for blacks to obtain and finance franchises) and Syrian President Hafez Assad (who, at Jackson's urging, released a U.S. flyer shot down over Lebanon in 1983). Today Jackson and Chicago-based Operation PUSH, an organization that he founded, are in the midst of a new crusade, and this time the target...
Debra Clay, 34, a working librarian in Houston, felt every inch the caring parent. At the pricey Creme de la Creme preschool learning center, her eight- month-old daughter Kendall peered at two red dots on a white flash card held by a teacher, who called out, "Two!" As new cards came up, the teacher chanted the numbers while Kendall acknowledged the exercise with an occasional gurgle. Down the hall, Kendall's four-year-old sister Katie chirped, "Un, deux, trois . . ." mimicking the accent of her Parisian instructor. Elsewhere around Creme de la Creme, 150 other tots and toddlers grappled...