Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When parents want to go shopping and no baby sitter can be found, a happy jaunt to the store can turn into a disaster. The child starts to cry, and Mom and Dad begin to shout. Joseph Adelman believes he has a solution. A former executive with United Artists and Paramount, Adelman recently opened Kidpix Theaters, a cinema that offers continuous 95-minute programs of cartoons and children's films between 11:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the Galleria at South Bay in Redondo Beach, Calif. Shopping-center-bound parents drop off their youngsters (ages five...
...short and a film like Ninja the Wonderboy. Adelman, who hopes to franchise Kidpix into a 400-theater chain, has encountered only one problem: parents get so wrapped up in shopping that they forget about Junior. Adelman is considering putting a two-hour time limit on the video baby sitter...
Vicki Clayton was headed for Seattle aboard the Puget Sound ferry when she remembered that her children's school was closing early that day. Undaunted, she simply picked up the phone and arranged for a baby-sitter. Clayton, a Bainbridge Island homemaker, thus availed herself of one of the latest benefits of the information age: pay phones on public transportation...
Sixteen years since his only victory, Andretti will start the 69th Indy 500 from the second row, just behind Pole-Sitter Pancho Carter and just ahead of Unser. Sons Al Unser Jr. and Michael Andretti will follow in the fourth and fifth rows of brilliantly painted cars scattered three abreast across the asphalt track. A circus kind of calling, racing regularly summons more than one generation of the same family, though these are the only fathers and sons who have ever raced together at Indianapolis. In his christening two years ago, Al Jr., 23, brought a smile to the speedway...
...exhibit of the works of Caroline Watson (1864-1938), an American artist whose once lustrous reputation could now stand some repolishing. The job requires regular trips to Manhattan and periods of peace and quiet about the Foster household. Michael flies off to France, and the first sitter Anne tries turns out to be churlish and unsuitable. What to do with the kids...