Word: sonly
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...Officer Bridges has described an encounter with Bush's parents in 1993, while he was working a detail for the former President and First Lady. Bridges told the Boston Globe that Bush's father thanked him, said the arrest was "the best thing that could have happened" to his son--and gave Bridges a tie clip...
Until then, Alabama had been in the forefront of foster-care reform. It had been set on that path after an incident in which local social workers used an unpaid utility bill to prove a man was unfit to raise his eight-year-old son, removed the child and placed him not in a foster home but in a psychiatric hospital, where the boy was isolated and heavily dosed with psychoactive drugs. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on the father's behalf. As a result, the federal court not only remanded the boy to his father...
Last week my friend Laura showed up at my front door, pushing her three-month-old son in his stroller. "I'm really...whatchamacallit," she said. "Tired?" I asked her. "The baby's not...you know." "Sleeping?" I asked. Laura's eyes had that familiar pinwheeling quality I remembered from my own first months of motherhood--that hallucinatory period when a mother's heart is opened wide, even as her eyelids flutter shut. No matter what the poets say about the ethereal joys of parenthood, any exhausted parent knows it is hard to concentrate on anything--sex, eating, finally changing...
History teems with a rich underground life--magic premonitions, sly recurrences, what Schlesinger calls "the circularity of things." Invisible wires vibrate between the dimensions of public and private. Schlesinger is 83 now, a distinguished historian who (speaking of circularity) is the son of another distinguished historian named Arthur Schlesinger, from whom he inherited a familiar cyclical hypothesis of American history, the idea of alternating radicalism and conservatism...
...word that is bound to make realists queasy) by the real-life story of a man named Carl Brashear, who is played by Cuba Gooding Jr., the film is feverish in its desire to reduce his experiences to a compendium of cliches. Carl is, to begin with, the son of a black sharecropper. He joins the Navy in 1948, when the military is officially desegregated yet still confines men of his race to the galley. But he sees Navy divers being heroic and decides to join their ranks...