Word: six-year-old
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...Sharon, a young single mother, had just returned from the grocery store with her six-year-old son when I arrived at her apartment. She had not chosen a candidate yet, but was very interested in what Harkin would do for the economy and the health care system. In her neat lower-middle class apartment, Sharon told me that although she resented Bush's handling of the economy, she "hadn't gotten around to looking into all the candidates...
Newer cable outlets are being forced to scrounge ever deeper in the vaults for fresh oldies. Comedy Central, the all-comedy cable network, has resurrected C.P.O. Sharkey, a dog from the mid-'70s starring Don Rickles. Nostalgia Television, a six-year-old network aimed at the "mature" audience, has unearthed such forgotten chestnuts as Date with the Angels, a short-lived '50s sitcom starring Betty White, and The Dennis O'Keefe Show, a one-season wonder from...
When Andrew Cotton, a 32-year-old architect, leaves his computer-firm job in Irvine at 6:45 p.m. for the two-hour trek back to Temecula, he eats his dinner at the wheel, tries to stay awake with a Larry McMurtry book-on-tape and finally, at about 8:45, after his 20-month-old baby is asleep, spends a quarter-hour with his wife and six-year-old son. "I keep telling myself, now, this is only temporary," says Cotton. "But it's been three years. My wife Jill calls herself a single parent." At 9 the lights...
...accompanied by two policemen, sifted through the ashes for vestiges of their once comfortable life. The chimney, built to withstand as well as nurture fire, stood as a charred sentinel above the remains of the living room. Bending down, Joy retrieved two small vases that her six-year-old twins had made in a pottery class with her mother. The tears came quickly as she cradled the pieces of ceramic. "How could this happen?" she asked...
That angry crowd some 30 years ago, and the six-year-old Ruby Bridges at the center of it, inspired a personal odyssey. For Robert Coles '50, professor of psychiatry and medical humanities, the civil rights movement introduced a moment of social reflection that continues still...