Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, no one objected to Quayle's praise of personal responsibility and the two-parent family at the time. To call President Clinton, as Quayle does, a "convert" to such bromides is preposterous. To be sure, the past couple of years have seen a growing fashion of blaming illegitimacy for everything from urban crime to the North Korean nuclear bomb. But even in ancient 1992 it required no courage to endorse "family values...
Later, as the interviews were winding down and as this reporter was eating a plum supplied by a thoughtful parent of one of the Harvard players, Kleinfelder walked over unsolicited and said, "I just want to say that I am very proud of this team...
...same time, he informs white audiences that they must take responsibility for the past and they will have to reconcile themselves to a future of majority rule. He is the paterfamilias of his nation (his staff members call him "Tata," which means father), but he is a stern parent, not a cuddly...
What any good executive can expect is that success breeds imitation. Where Disney and Warner go, competitors will follow. Sony, which owns the Columbia Pictures library, has opened high-tech prototype stores in its Manhattan headquarters that emphasize the parent company's electronic equipment but also feature bibelots from current sitcoms (Seinfeld coffee mugs, Ed Bundy WHY ME? T shirts) and old movies (Three Stooges dolls, an On the Waterfront I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER sweatshirt). This month, in the same building, the company will unveil Sony Wonder, a free exhibition space with the first permanent interactive movie theater...
Remembered by most for the 1940 Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant/Jimmy Stew-art film adaptation, The Philadelphia Story ambitiously tackles a number of themes, from class tension to divorce to parent-child relations. The play revolves around Lord (Janine Poreba), a wealthy socialite who is tired of men, from her father to her ex-husband, telling her how untouchably wonderful she is. With Tracy set to marry newly-rich social climber George Kittredge (J.C. Wolfgang Murad), her wedding promises to be a gala affair, drawing reluctant reporters Elizabeth Imbrie (Emily Gardiner) and Mike Connor (Jason Watkins...