Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents who objected that their religious and moral standards had been violated. In all, four parents filed formal complaints, assisted by the Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based firm that often represents Christian conservatives. Passions were further inflamed when Rivers gave an interview to the student newspaper, discussing her childhood belief that she would grow up to be a woman, her three failed marriages and recovery from alcoholism, her psychiatric and hormone therapy and her fear of rejection by students. "I'm not some freak," she told the newspaper. "I have been a good teacher, but my best days...
Like other Soviet youngsters who showed musical promise at an early age, she had no real childhood. "All I did," she recalls in her fluent but slightly askew English, "was practice like crazy mad." She spent her youth studying cello, composition and piano ("I love piano. I still play but not in concert"), and gave her first public performance at age seven. But her budding career hit the skids when her father, a prizewinning virtuoso bass player, was judged a political risk by the authorities. "He was incredible bassist," she says, "but he was so much exposed to the West...
MacDonald's brothers and sisters spend their childhood acquainting themselves with petty crimes, dope and the unforgiving code of the streets: never, never snitch. The family dodges real and figurative bullets and seems to be getting on until, halfway through the book, members start dropping as if it's the last act of Hamlet. Davey, a schizophrenic, jumps to his death from a rooftop. Frankie, a promising young prizefighter, is shot dead while trying to rob an armored car. Kevin, a drug dealer, is found suspiciously hanged outside his jail cell. Sister Kathy, a serious pill popper, is shoved...
Bloom's Bill of Rights outlines six points targeting these causes: the right to information, the right to mother and infant care, the right to childhood immunization, the right to teenage counseling, the right to health screening and the right to a healthy environment...
...what is interesting is who will be sharing in their success. Matt and Ben haven't just taken the name "Pearl Street" from the carefree youth they spent with their Cantabrigian friends; they've also taken the friends. Damon and Affleck have manned their new enterprise with old childhood friends, all of them young writers, directors and producers...