Word: boys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Outside grew up in Durham, Me., where his mother had moved to care for her aging parents. He was oversized and ungainly, with a thatch of unruly black hair, buck teeth and thick glasses, the one who was predictably chosen last in sandlot games. Mr. Inside was the fatherless boy who held a lot of "anger that has never been directed. In my inward life, I still boil a lot." So it is no surprise that many of King's books could be fairly called "The Revenge of the Nerds": the ursine kid with the bad eyes and the shambling...
...suddenly turns on its owners; a teenager's love affair with his Plymouth Fury is totaled when the car is possessed by the vengeful ghost of a previous owner; the caretaker of a vast mountain resort hotel finds himself slowly overtaken by the malevolent spirits envisioned by his little boy; two college students volunteer for a government experiment and become parents of a daughter with a unique gift: she can make things burst into flame with the force of her will. All of these fantasies are built on an armature of moral order. The good suffer, but the malefactors perish...
...said, 'No, they are all still right there.' " Besides, King's work has inspired a bona fide hit in 1986: Rob Reiner's Stand by Me, an adaptation of The Body, a 1982 novella that focuses on a group of twelve-year-olds searching for the body of a boy who was struck by a train...
...vaulted gothic-style ceiling. Tabitha calls it the Church of the Poisoned Mind. The children drift in and out frequently. Naomi, 16, comes by dressed in a Mickey Mouse T shirt and shorts, a departure from the standard King uniform of work shirt and jeans. She complains that the boys were hogging the pool. Joe, 14, prowls through the study shelves in search of the videocassette of Day of the Dead, but his father suggests the boy screen some Alfred Hitchcock thrillers. "Watch the Hitcher," King advises. "He's scary." When Joe wanders off with Capricorn One instead, King digs...
...saddled only once in their lives will be ridden today. Ridden, with no bridle for control. Ray explains, "Getting people to ride their colts with nothing on the horse's head keeps a human humble. It forbids them from trying to control the horse, and the horse feels that. Boy, does he feel it. And that's the beginning of trust...