Word: roots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chatter between drivers and crew chiefs. Holmes saved up for two months to come to the race with his stepfather, two sons and a nephew. He doesn't know it, but 75 yds. away in a somewhat more elaborate rig, Texaco CEO Peter Bijur is getting ready to root for Kenny Irwin in the Havoline...
Over the years reports have surfaced that the social and emotional lives of the kids in Menudo were poorly supervised, even neglected. Diaz will admit only that the group did have "problems," though he denies he was the root cause. Says Diaz: "I think a lot of problems come from the house, from the family, some of the parents the kids have." Martin, Diaz says, actually fared better than most. "Ricky had that special personality, like a charm," says Diaz. "He could handle himself...
...know so much in this first chapter--and not because of the prerelease hype. We know that plucky Anakin will grow up to be Darth Vader, so the crepe of Fate hangs over his ascendancy. We are meant to root for the boy when he finds himself in a plane cockpit during the climactic battle (he could be a kid sneaking a drive in his dad's Lamborghini), yet we know that the budding hero will later be a super-villain, as if Aladdin were to grow up to be Jafar...
...film and who interacts with virtually everyone. He's totally life-like and technically fascinating, but he's so annoying it's almost criminal. I cringed every time he opened his big floppy mouth to spit out whatever nonsense it was he was saying. Jar-Jar is at the root of many of the film's moments of misdirection; I guess he's in there to appeal to younger kids, but even so, Lucas is playing down with the character's clumsy shenanigans. And when he steps in manure and gets a faceful of flatulent gas, I was really embarrassed...
...already in love with the baby, and she and her husband decide against the abortion everyone recommends. Slyly ironic, frequently hilarious, Beck's memoir charts the journey from being smart to becoming wise, along the way drawing a believable portrait of a marriage in which two people root entirely for each other. In raising a child that isn't perfect, they find a life that is better than they could have imagined when they were sitting atop the ivory tower...