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...like saying the sun runs a little hot...One of their earliest dates was Mass followed by a rosary. As a kid hearing my mother tell the story for the umpteenth time, I could only sit, mouth agape, in something approaching mortification, thinking, Oh my God, I have the squarest parents in the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marley & Me's Author on Childhood | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Freak," released in 1978, encompasses everything that the disco connoisseur desires in a song. Right after a groovin' scream in the intro, the base settles into a panacea of flashing lights and disco balls. Even the squarest lounge lizard can't help but do the freak...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Disco Fever: It will survive | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...fully her equals in its structure, always giving as good as they get. Erica's the silent, watchful one. Little Opal's the pert mistress of the wise-child zinger. In fact, the film's two best passages belong to them. When Erica takes as her first lover the squarest boy in school (that'll show Mom), their struggle with the logistics of lovemaking is a fresh, sweetly hilarious exploration of familiar territory. And the girls' search for their runaway dad -- he turns out to be in produce, in Albany, and hopelessly inarticulate -- is both adorable and unsentimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsentimental Educations | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...live in a handsome six-room East Side apartment. Carrie Nye, now 33, is a willowy Mississippian who met Cavett when both were at Yale and married him in 1964 after a sporadic court ship. She says: "Dick thought I was Zelda Fitzgerald, and I thought he was the squarest person I ever met. I remember thinking that he was attractive but what a pity he was such a bore." She pauses, then adds in a voice as sultry as a hot night on the old plantation: "In the intervening years he became more interesting and I became a bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dick Cavett: The Art of Show and Tell | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

Bothered Brethren. To many Washingtonians, Moyers is one of the squarest guys in town. Because of his Baptist credentials, his cottage-cheese complexion and Sunday-school propriety, he is likely to have trouble shedding the Eagle Scout image. Yet, insists Dr. DeWitt Reddick. director of the University of Texas Journalism School, where Moyers was a straight-A student: "There's nothing sanctimonious about him." And, press critics to the contrary, he was never a Boy Scout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: L.B.J.'s Young Man In Charge of Everything | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

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