Word: ballons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...therefore very pregnant. But the young women have already been nurturing three children whose personalities they assume now and then: the legendary French wild child, raised by wolves; an endearing little child prodigy; and the character who floats up, up, and away in the children's lit classic, "Le Ballon Rouge." The problem? Peter tires of this imaginary-children nonsense. The solution? Well, that can be the thorny bit, as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" aficionados know...
Blake, as Ruth, provides a similar stabilizing presence, tacitly brandishing her baby-on-board girth. Yet hers is a false stability, as she keeps alive the children fantasies, dutifully breaking up scuffles between the Wild Child and Le Ballon Rouge, even as they occur in one person. Blake hits the note of maternal cajoling perfectly...