Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brazelton once wanted to be a veterinarian. At age eight, already an experienced baby sitter, he decided on pediatrics. He went to Princeton, starred in Triangle Club theatricals, even got an offer in 1940 to try out on Broadway for an Ethel Merman musical, Panama Hattie, but he held on to the goal of healing infants. His hero, he says, was Benjamin Spock, and although Brazelton is now regarded as the new Spock, he considers himself more a disciple than a rival of the older...
...role apparently is that of a baby sitter for the brain. While television is considered a "relaxing and enjoyable pastime," it literally functions as just that, a "pastime," an activity for those times when people have nothing better to do. The main reason cited for video ennui is the programming: only 57% of the respondents said that they were satisfied with the quality of entertainment served up by the tube. Others were fearful, moreover, that the programming was a negative influence on their behavior and on language...
Father sits, catatonic, beside the refrigerator or guzzles hooch that he hides inside a big toy duck. Mother bitterly complains that she has sacrificed a literary career to have a family. A baby sitter reads aloud a parody of Mommie Dearest. A German shepherd eats an infant whole and barks for more. Is it any wonder that this family's little girl (or boy: the parents are too polite to peek) grows up confused...
...cheeks, like one of the winds huffing and blowing. "But truely," she conceded, "I thinke it tis lyke the originale." The fact is that flattery is not a word that can quickly be defined, at least in portraiture. How it is used, what it means, depends on how the sitter feels about himself and how posterity will feel about the sitter. Our own bias, in a post-Freudian age, is toward portraits that show a "truth" about the sitter that the sitter was not willing to admit. But that is not how the portraitists of the 16th, 17th or 18th...
...Dustin Hoffman can wear a dress to get his movie character an acting job, Richard Pryor can wear a dress in his job as a waitress. Pryor plays an underemployed journalist who, for $10,000, agrees to act as the baby-sitter in the swimming pool...