Word: trotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immediate Family touches all these bases lightly, like a gazelle on a home- run trot. Openhearted and canny, the film offers few answers, takes no sides. It paints the yups, Linda and Michael, as decent, attractive people. Their friends' kids may run wild in a toddler road show of Lord of the Flies, but the Spectors seem ideal parents-to-be. Yet they can't be biological parents. Every month Linda says, "I spend two weeks whacked out on fertility drugs, two weeks depressed that they don't work." In the bathroom, Michael opens a specimen jar, picks...
...home run (you know, when the ball actually goes into the trees on no bounces) with it. The pitcher was this short loudmouth who looked like Emmanuel Lewis with a James Brown hairdo. I hit the ball into the center field trees and began my first true home run trot, just like the big leaguers. But as I rounded second, the umpire told me to stop, ruling that the ball bounced into the trees for a ground-rule double. Bummer...
They also like to dance on it. South of town is the Stardusty Ballroom, where twice a week in season 300 ballroom dancers fox-trot and waltz to the supple beat of a five-piece band that displays its name, Desert Varnish, on maroon baseball caps. The dance floor is made of plywood panels, and the ceiling is the blue Arizona sky. DANCE AT YOUR OWN RISK reads the sign posted near a huge cactus. Couples dance in the desert, romance hovering like heat haze; some dress in matching colors. Stuck in the ground around them are plastic hyacinths, windmills...
...timely hints will restore the American household to its imagined bygone tranquillity. Only a dramatic change in both attitudes and economics would offer a genuine respite. And, anyway, ! who hasn't felt the exhilaration of running this race, which many might actually miss if they slowed to a trot. But at some point individuals must find the time to consider the price of their preoccupation and the toll on the spirit exacted by exhaustion. With too little sleep there are too few dreams. And for children, especially, being eight years old should include some long, ice-creamy afternoons of favorite...
...Hardly anybody has seen anything, and I doubt anyone has an opinion...Harvard is planning to trot it around very carefully," said Dowds...