Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin Matter. Their discovery, confirmed by standard tests: a seven-year-old girl who reversed the usual transmission pattern (mother-carrier-to-son) by inheriting the disease from her father's side of the family.* A paternal grand-uncle is known to have had bleeding problems in childhood; there is no maternal hemophilia history. The girl was hospitalized after loosening baby teeth caused excessive bleeding, is now responding favorably to standard treatment (i.e., injection of fresh plasma...
...Herbe. The typically Colettish plot: a 16-year-old boy named Phil (Pierre-Michel Beck) and his mother share a summer home on the Brittany beach with 15-year-old Vinca (Nicole Berger) and her family. The coltish youngsters love their summer lives, although, as they emerge from childhood, they begin to feel the prickly pain of petty jealousies. Into Phil's, life there comes a mature woman (Edwige Feuillère) who at length welcomes him, curious, experimental and bold, to her bed. Having taught the boy how to be a man, she gently sends him back...
...Deep. Voluble as can be when arguing whether a bird is a Bohemian or a cedar waxwing, birders become strangely inarticulate when pressed to explain their sport. They have no simple motto like the Everest climbers' "Because it is there." They usually mumble something about liking birds since childhood, or about the thrill of hunting without its element of cruelty, or just the great outdoors. Whatever its origin, the birding bug bites deep. Wives picture themselves dolefully as "birding widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole when...
...Little Kidnappers. Two small boys on a farm in Nova Scotia: one of the best pictures ever made about childhood; with Duncan Macrae, Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter; directed by Philip Leacock (TIME, Sept...
...wise enough to stick to what they do best-the "little picture" that costs around ?150,000 ($420,000). During the year the British released in the U.S. two superb little farces (Genevieve and High and Dry}, another almost their equal (The Final Test), and a picture about childhood (The Little Kidnappers) that catches the radiance and anguish of life's morning in frames of quiet poetry. At year's end, too, came a somewhat fuddled but heartfelt and intelligent adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The Heart of the Matter...