Word: childhood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Diego, where he grew up in a blue-collar family with mother Denise, a deputy sheriff in a county jail; stepfather LaMar, a security officer; and half brother Jovan, 14. Bush's relationship with his biological father, which he describes as a "a roller coaster," complicated his childhood. "It was tough with both sides of the family not getting along too well," he says. "[I was] caught in a tug-of-war." Bush calls LaMar his father (during his Heisman acceptance speech, Bush broke down while thanking him). Luckily, football offered plenty of solace. Bush ran for eight touchdowns...
...long been linked—Apollo was the Greek god of both disciplines and, in many pre-industrial societies, shamanic figures use music and dance to heal. Kogan offers George Gershwin as a modern case study, describing the composer’s young life as “a childhood that could have gone off the rails without the influence of music.” The legendary composer’s parents were gamblers who moved the family in and out of 28 different apartments before he was 18. By any standards, Gershwin had a “gigantic?...
...clumsy prose is a poor match for Lewis’ fluency.Lewis’ fascination with the fantastic began at an early age, when he formed an elaborate mythology with his older brother in the upper room of their house in Ulster. Stories sustained Lewis through a difficult childhood, beginning with the loss of his mother and continuing in a series of nightmarish episodes at boarding school. Exceptionally gifted at his scholarly pursuits, Lewis nonetheless suffered from social awkwardness in his youth. He prized solitude and became a “thoroughly obnoxious, arrogant, condescending intellectual prig...
...Marissa’s nightmare about the shooting; Ryan’s punching-bag fiasco; and this kaleidoscopic flashback. Even though this one was effective, the act needs to stop.Seriously, what’s next? Will Julie be overcome by a flood of repressed memories from her trailer-park childhood? If that prediction materializes, I’m so money…and so incredibly sad.—Kevin Ferguson
...still takes road trips with his childhood friends, including a two-week trip this summer that began in southern California and ended in Seattle. The trip was a good way to catch up, and it also provided inspiration for his current series of landscapes, he said...