Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jean Baptiste Colbert, the tax collector for Louis XIV, who set the tone for all that followed him: "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing." So far, he reckons, Country Boy Carter has plucked well, though there surely is some hissing in the background...
...askew. Director Moshe Mizrahi's film is so unashamedly a vehicle for a grand old actress that the award might better have been made by Motor Trend magazine. Signoret is marvelous as the lovable old baggage. Samy Ben Youb is luminous as Momo, the 14-year-old Arab boy who sticks with Madame Rosa to the end. Claude Dauphin is gallant as the indomitable old doctor who tends Rosa, and who is himself so rickety that he must be carried up to her room when he makes his house calls...
...Sandwich tells the story of a black 13-year-old growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto. While the story explores the various intricacies of this environment (the roof-tops, the asphalt basketball courts and the classrooms), it is primarily a study of the relationship that builds between the boy, Benji (played by Larry Scott) and his stepfather, Butler (Paul Winfield...
...just gonna go home now," he said as I was about to close the door, "and do some of this," he said, holding a big fat reefer in front of me with a king-boy grin full of just enough vigor to get him home...
...children do express their deprivation in various ways. Once, when a counselor was playfully roughhousing with a child, the boy suddenly drew back in fear, saying, "You hit me!" Their play is less constructive than is normal for children their ages; they seem to prefer throwing rocks and sticks to building blocks or story-telling. Under constant peer pressure, their level of competition increases to the point where many children seek the heaviest stones, and boast of having the strongest muscles...