Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they're spending less time in front of the TV set, kids aren't replacing it with reading. Despite the campaigning by parents, teachers and Hillary Clinton to get kids more interested in books, the children surveyed spent just over an hour a week reading, little changed from 1981. Let's face it, who's got the time...
...always agree on when children are overburdened. Jack Fletcher, professor of pediatrics at UT-Houston Health Science Center, has two daughters, ages 7 and 10, and he notes that "some children thrive on having a lot to do." He and his wife Patricia McEnery, a former social worker, aren't strict about how the girls spend every minute of the day. "The trick," says McEnery, "is to assess what your kids really need and try to find a balance...
...Moore explores these while winding intricate thoughts into the heads of her characters. Rarely, if ever, does the omniscient narrator comment on the characters or their actions. One area where Moore seems inclined to stray away from the norm is dialogue; all too often, people say things that just aren't spoken by normal people; they're spoken by people in existentialist plays or in college lectures on surrealism. Occasionally these can be distracting--it's hard to believe that these lines are coming from her own experience--but they're part of her style, and it can work either...
...greatest strength of the Boston Jewish Film Festival--the example set for other ethnic groups in the redefinition of "community." Community is a term quite liberally flung around, and in terms of multiculturalism, it often appears that community is composed solely of people of that ethnicity. If you aren't African-American or Italian or Jewish, you can't possibly understand the needs and intricacies of a particular group, so you might as well not even try--this is the self-defeating implication of the current exclusion of other groups from an ethnic community. At the festival, however, it didn...
...finally taken out by his surrogate host, Avra C. Van Der Zee '02, who had taken pity on him after he left several desperate notes on her door. After spending the night fending off his earnest advances, Van Der Zee came to the conclusion that "pre-frosh that aren't yours are only good for sending back to the dorm to raid their absentee host's alcohol stash...