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from the fresh air interview with gloria steinem:

STEINEM: I don’t know if he [my father] thought that, but he did think that ice cream was the ultimate reward. I mean, no matter what bad thing happened — say our car had been repossessed by the finance company or he had mortgaged the house without my mother’s knowing about it — and, you know, no matter what bad thing happened, or no matter what bad thing had happened to me, you know…I mean, a childhood kind of bad thing — he thought that a malted and a movie could cure everything. And I have to say…he wasn’t wrong.

A malted and movie can go a very long way.