Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critics blame her for the embarrassing squabble with the Legal Defense Fund. At the Boston convention, the 3,000 delegates were bombarded with speeches and pamphlets attacking the L.D.F. and rallying support for the "real N.A.A.C.P." Wilson persuasively argues that the fund, which for technical reasons separated from its parent organization in 1957, has not only been siphoning off potential contributions from the N.A.A.C.P. but also confusing donors about what the two organizations stand for. The N.A.A.C.P. has retained former Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts to press a copyright infringement suit against the L.D.F. in federal court. Some association insiders...
EVERYBODY IN HOLLYWOOD wants to be a parent these days. The epidemic of tenderness is spreading as quickly on the West Coast as gypsy moths on the East. The ever-vulnerable Dustin Hoffman fell first, but after a while the infection gained enough strength to attack more formidable opponents, like Henry Fonda and Albert Finney. The latest victim: tough guy-turned-Pop, Al Pacino. Michael Corleone is now coddling children instead of pistols...
...film's message is underscored inadvertently by the players creating the story. In general, the adult actors perform adequately at best. Dee Wallace, as the mother, appears too confused herself to carry off the confused parent role. The NASA hit squad pops up awkwardly without regard to the rest to the plot. What little acting the white-suited villians do is wooden and stereotypical. But the kids. They are adorable, and appropriately, they make the show...
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s long-awaited subsidiary, Baby Bell, came into the world last week. Some baby. The company, which will be known as American Bell, immediately had 1,000 employees and $59 million in assets from its corporate parent. Unlike AT&T, the offspring will be free of federal regulation and will thus be able to venture into the growing fields of information processing and computers...
...years, illegal Mexican immigrants have provided a pool of cheap labor in and around Tyler, Texas (pop. 70,500). They have also sent their children free to the local public schools. But in 1977 these parents got some bad news: their children could attend school only if they paid $1,000 annual tuition. Texas had passed a law cutting off the state's share of the costs of educating such children. Some of the parents, although leery of drawing governmental attention to their unlawful presence, asked the federal courts to intervene. Last week, expressing skepticism about any law "directing...