Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neill, who comes from a long line of working women which dates back to her great-grandmother, says "the heroine role model of a working mother is hardly the professional woman with one child and a flexible job. The real heroine is a single parent working in a factory with four kids." O'Neill adds, "I have a supportive husband, a wonderful daughter, an extended family nearby. It's not a lot of angst...
...laughed. "Come on, Rutger," I said. "Disney? Conspiracy? Didn't you ever see The Parent Trap with Haley Mills? A charming, absolutely charming film, as were all Disney films. Sure, none of 'em were Taxi Driver or Apocalypse...
...parents really are afraid to touch their children, they must be afraid of these essentials too, as attitudes that confine their own free lives. They are afraid of the wrong things. Between parent and child there is no monster like silence. It grows even faster than children, filling first a heart, then a house, then history. The freedom children seek is the freedom from silence. The freedom they are given too often is the freedom of the damned, with which they may strangle themselves late on a summer night, in a city, in a park, where they have gone...
Stealing the show is Tonino Delli Colli's cinematography, which is hazy and remote throughout but becomes fast-paced and astute as the more sanguinary scenes call for it. Even fans of its literary parent will find Hollywood's Rose rendition to be a vision...
Under the Cosby spell, family shows have reverted to classic form. Though divorced mothers and one-parent households are far more common than they once were, the old-fashioned two-parent model has staged a comeback. Indeed, the circle of kinfolk is expanding: grandparents are central figures in several of TV's newest households. Superficially, these shows have kept pace with the times; the teenage daughter's boyfriend is likely to have a punk haircut and be named Lash. But the uplifting message has changed little. Children still need firm, loving guidance, but will ultimately do what is right...