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...from well-observed incident to well-observed incident. The paper-ball fight on Elliot’s bus was a staple of my middle school afternoons, and doubtless Elliot’s feigning illness by warming his thermometer on a lightbulb was inspired by Spielberg’s acknowledged childhood practice. Unsurprisingly, the youngest actors give the finest performances. As Elliot’s wide-eyed kid sister, Gertie, Drew Barrymore gives a wonderfully unforced performance of a caliber she hasn’t matched since. Thomas’ Elliot is almost as good—smart, sincere...
...somewhere in the middle of this it occurred to me: Pete’s my age and I’m sitting on my butt watching TV and eating Tostitos. My childhood dreams of basketball superstardom will never come true. I’d had a similar insight while watching the Little League World Series at 16. Once I hit 40, I’ll probably realize that even a future with the ever-graying New York Knicks is out of the question...
...brat could ferret out. This has always helped to make him a great favorite with worried modernist parents and ensured that reproductions of his work, such as They're Biting, 1920, outnumber even those of Rousseau's jungle scenes in the nurseries of the West as unbudgeable classics of childhood...
...rooting for most of Arsenic’s disturbed oddballs, Mortimer’s brother Jonathan is the obligatory bad guy. Portrayed by Robert A. O’Donnell ’04, he is a serial killer that happens to choose an inopportune time to visit his childhood home. O’Donnell does an excellent job as the villain, lending Jonathan an appropriately sinister voice and laugh...
Heimer says the intellectual aura of the Harvard community that surrounded her childhood seems much more impressive today than when she was eight. “I wish I could say that my strongest memories of childhood consist of meeting the great luminaries of Harvard and basking in their wisdom,” she says. “I suppose there was some of that, but mostly I remember horsing around with my brother in the elevator…and trying to trap him in the basement…and of course I remember that the dining hall food...