Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before that, he tugged at his mother's pearls when she held him and squirmed in his father's lap when the President, who could not lift the boy because of his bad back, could corral him for a few seconds...
...child, our little boy, flitting in and out of camera range around the White House when his dad was President. He did grow up and become that elegant New York City editor, John F. Kennedy Jr., the clan's flag bearer of what was good and glamorous. But I never could get over the memories around the White House...
...desk I heard giggling and thumping underneath. John-John was in what he called his cave. Once when he peeked out and White House photographers got the picture, there was another image that traveled around the world: the reduction of great power to its simplest ingredient, a tiny boy exploring his world from the ground...
...someday history would treasure those images. John-John liked the captain's company, so much so that often when he saw Stoughton he would squeal, "Take my picture Taptain Toughton." And once when Stoughton had snapped a frame of John-John playing with a rabbit, he asked if the boy would take a picture of him with the rabbit. John-John took the camera with relish and clicked the shutter like a pro. In Stoughton's book The Memories, that one is the only photograph that the captain did not take. It is now another fragment of the profound Kennedy...
...afternoon of July 8, stores around Britain were packed with children waiting for it. No, not for the newest set of Pokemon trading cards, but for a book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third installment of J.K. Rowling's entrancing magical mystery tales about a boy who is really a wizard. At exactly 3:45 p.m.--the moment of the book's eagerly awaited release, timed to the end of the school day--"there was a pause," says Tara Stephenson, head of children's sales and marketing at Blackwell's. "Then once the first one was sold...