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...psyche. In a world of ceaseless change, people cling desperately to the known and the given. The old Latin Mass is gone, the phone company has been broken up, Walter Cronkite is no longer on the evening news. Throughout those changes, Coke was always there, a misty memory from childhood, a rock of ages. "Certain things in our psychological environment have to stay constant because we're in such a changing world," says Dr. Bert Pepper (no relation to the soft drink), a New York City psychiatrist. "Each of us has our favorite object of constancy. Many Americans have picked...
...grounded; her slow-witted older brother Gao Weiguo (Feng Li), whose parents favor him as unabashedly as his co-workers mistreat him; and Gao Weiqiang (Lu Yulai), the dreamy narrator whose life is overshadowed by his two older siblings. All three characters?played by first-time actors?hover between childhood and adulthood. The Gaos march to their own time, refusing?or just failing?to follow the prescribed paths toward maturity. Weihong struggles to break free of social norms, while her brothers just struggle. Peacock chronicles their thwarted attempts?some touching, some depraved?to take control of their own lives...
Lithgow is an advocate of childhood literacy, performs in youth concerts and ballets, and is currently writing a series of children’s books...
...enough to have reached that stage in life when my parents have begun to ask me for advice, and when the delusional security of my younger years has vanished. Okay, so maybe ‘fortunate’ is an overstatement. But despite the dramatic collapse of my safe childhood bastion, being summoned for advice has actually been liberating in some ways. And my mother, a recent divorcée, now actually listens to my supposed ‘analyses...
DIED. FRANK CONROY, 69, who laid the groundwork for modern confessional memoirs with his acclaimed 1967 debut Stop-Time, an unsentimental chronicle of his painfully nomadic, picaresque childhood; of colon cancer; in Iowa City. The sometime jazz pianist mentored scores of young writers, many of whom became successful novelists, during 18 years as head of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the country's most prestigious creative-writing program...