Word: child
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...windowless basement where Natascha Kampusch was locked up for 8½ years, it's almost impossible to believe that anyone could have survived the ordeal. Yet the Austrian kidnapping victim not only made it out of the dungeon where an engineer named Wolfgang Priklopil had imprisoned her as a child but also emerged a remarkably confident and self-assured young woman...
...play the Himalayan girl Kanchi, who performs a wild native dance (it's mostly just running) and gets whipped for her insolence. Simmons's blond-wigged "most beautified Ophelia" is another willful creature, no less flirtatious with her brother Laertes than she is crazy for Hamlet. As a girl-child unable to cope with the roiling emotions of passion and rejection, Simmons aces her mad scene and makes a most picturesque suicide, in a weedy white dress, supine in a stream. "She was lovely in both of them," Powell wrote of Simmons in his autobiography, "I don't think that...
...widely loathed, there's despised, and then there's John Edwards. Americans are a tolerant people, but they have a line, and evidently when you cheat on your cancer-stricken wife, lie about it to everyone while running for President and then decline to acknowledge fathering a love child for two years, you've crossed it. Given the towering stack of strikes against him, can Edwards resume any kind of public life? Short of curing his wife's cancer, is there anything he could do to get people to at least tolerate...
...this is just as exciting as it sounds, but director Jon Amiel's main intent is to frame Darwin's authorship of one of the most important books of all time around the death of a child, Darwin's 10-year-old daughter Annie (Martha West). Between her loss and his grief, Creation is a doubleheader of misery and melancholy that serve mostly to make you look forward to the writing bits. After a bout of scarlet fever, Annie languished for weeks. She was apparently the light of Darwin's life, and the movie does not miss an opportunity...
...says. Or worse, apartments listed at affordable prices were often sold within minutes at sums beyond Chen's comprehension. "In the end, we had no choice but to give up," he says. "Eventually we will still need a home that belongs to us, especially if we have a child. I just hope the government will do something to bring down the prices this year...