Word: boys
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...movie in which she is Jo Butler, the track-wise daughter of a down-on-his-luck horse trainer, played by Warren Gates. The film is out of a short story of the same title by Ernest Hemingway, but the bloodline is a little thin. Joe Butler, the American boy in Hemingway's tale about seedy racing in Europe between the wars, never got to ride Gilford. McNichol does, and if you want to know how she fares, tune...
Watching The Black Stallion is like spending two hours with a stack of National Geographies. Director Carroll Ballard's adaptation of Walter Farley's boy-and-horse novel consists of one stunning view after another: coral seas, scarlet sunsets, moonlit landscapes, stormy skies. Almost every shot is suitable for framing, and Ballard prefers it that way. Whenever actors step into the frame, the director dismisses them quickly; he seems to feel that characters are intruders who come around only to mess up his pretty pictures...
...Inhouse," Gracie might answer. "Oh, in the house," Romain would reply slowly. Single words were expanded to phrases, phrases to sentences. Romain and Koeneke never directly corrected the twins. The girls seemed astonishingly innocent of the simplest childhood pleasures. They were totally baffled by a picture of a boy climbing a tree. The pathologists remember they provoked "exciting" language by taking the two outside to demonstrate tree climbing. After more than 100 hours of play were videotaped, Romain and Koeneke learned the girls' private language. But when the speech pathologists used it, Ginny and Gracie refused to answer. "They...
Grabar said that the humanities were "curiously derelict" in recruiting women, and attributed it in part to the "locker room old boy network," which encourages humanities faculty to "choose people of their...
Lest you think public television is immune to the Christmas Spirit, they give it to you just as determinedly, except with the pinky raised delicately away from the tea cup. "Amahl and the Night Visitors," Giancarlo Menotti's Christmas opera about a crippled shepherd boy who makes good, is on PBS, Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. The "Joy of Bach," (self-explanatory) is the next night at 8 p.m., and then, "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street," Monday the 24th at 8 p.m. The schedule promises a "special interview" with Henry A. Kissinger on "The Dick Cavett Show" Saturday the 22nd...