Word: summering
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...Every summer while I was growing up, my parents took me to the Jersey shore, where I'd plug quarter after quarter into pinball machines. As a teenager attempting to evade Mom and Dad's sometimes overbearing attention, I'd bike to the local arcade and slam the same games. Even into my 30s, whenever I'd visit my folks, I'd drive to a nearby juke joint and shoot a few pins for old times' sake. But when I became an orphan this year at age 42, I also became an adult. I stopped playing pinball for good...
...after my father died this summer, I lost more than just my remaining parent. Four decades of childhood were also cut loose. Suddenly there were no family members to report to--or rebel against. And that's pretty scary. A new moral dilemma? A question about the stock market? A mature voice of reason? From this point on, the mirror would have to provide answers. Growing up is hard to do, especially when you're scheduled to enter middle...
Even as Chrysler hurries to increase supply, another entry in the nostalgia sweepstakes is on the way. Next summer an incarnation of the classic 1955 Ford Thunderbird will appear. The Thunderbird (so named by a young Ford stylist who was rewarded with a $95 bonus and a pair of trousers from Saks Fifth Avenue) started out as a snazzy two-seater weighing 3,000 lbs. and costing $2,695. It eventually evolved into a giant sedan weighing more than 5,000 lbs. that was finally discontinued in 1997. The new model, slimmed down to roadster size and fitted with familiar...
Earlier that summer I had left my job as a senior editor at TIME to become a senior adviser and chief speechwriter for the presidential campaign of former Senator Bill Bradley, whom I had known and admired since he came to talk to one of my classes at Princeton. A few weeks after I signed on, I mentioned during a strategy session that in an interview in a certain newsmagazine--oh, O.K., TIME--the Vice President seemed to have overstated his involvement in the creation of the earned income tax credit. The campaign's ad director leaned over...
...incident that led to the D.U.I. arrest was hardly dramatic. Bush, then 30, was driving down Kennebunkport's Ocean Avenue after midnight on the way to his family's summer compound. He had been drinking beer that night with his sister Dorothy, Australian tennis star John Newcombe and Newcombe's wife. Officer Bridges, just getting off duty, saw Bush's car slipping briefly onto the shoulder before getting back on the road. Bridges stopped the car and asked Bush to take a sobriety test. Bush readily admitted he had been drinking, Bridges said, and made no attempt to evade...