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Chase plays the father, Clark W. Griswold, who is not content with merely flying to California. He plans the entire trip on his personal computer, and is determined to experience Americana by hopping into the old tank of a station wagon and riding down the highway with sentimental music on the radio...
Some of the humor is unnecessary and tasteless, such as when Blacks in a St. Louis ghetto steal the station wagon's hubcaps while Chase asks for directions, or when the teenage daughter of some ridiculously hick relative brags that daddy says she is the best french kisser. These stereotypical characterizations--while occasionally funny in the racist, sexist world of the National Lampoon magazine--are completely gratuitous in a movie of this type...
...first sheriff of Independence, Mo., the first white man to lead a party to the brink of the Yosemite Valley and the first to lead a wagon train into California, in 1843. Frontiersman Joseph Walker, says Biographer Bil Gilbert, "should have become a gaudy boon to the toy and TV industries" like his contemporary, Kit Carson. The reason he did not: Walker's stubborn refusal to embroider his achievements for legend-hungry Eastern journalists. So they "moved on to men and events that could be conventionally romanticized...
...motel on Long Island, N.Y., in 1974. She charged that the motel-room lock was faulty; a jury awarded her $2.5 million in damages. Some recent decisions also involve whopping sums, and somewhat unlikely defendants. In California, a drunken driver plowed into the rear end of a station wagon parked on the shoulder of a freeway; the wagon had been left without lights by a police officer who was arresting its driver. The passengers riding with the drunk sued him and also the state, which had to ante up $2 million in damages. In 1978 a student from the Massachusetts...
Recognizing alcoholism is simpler than pinpointing its causes. Says Vaillant: "The warning signs of alcoholism are when a person finds himself doing things when drinking that he regrets afterward, or if he has ever gone on the wagon, or tried to change brands to control his drinking." Some other danger signals: five or more drinks daily; problems with family or friends or at work over drinking; two or more blackouts while drinking...