Word: childhoods
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...dead woman's house, but a sense of respect for the departed pervades the movie. "Do you think they loved each other?" Norah asks, surveying the bathroom where a murder-suicide took place. "Yes," Rose says with certainty. The more we learn about Rose and Norah's childhood - their mother died in what Norah dryly terms a "do-it-yourself kind of thing" - the more we can make sense of Rose's mistakes and Norah's ineptness. The film is most compassionate and engaging in its assessment of the fallout from suicide on surviving family members, in this case...
...honest, as a 10th floor resident of Leverett G Tower who is literally petrified by roaches (it was a scarring childhood experience!), this couldn't have been worse news. While I've come to enjoy the dungeony hallways, I'll be staying away if one of these things plops on my shoulder while showering. It almost makes me wish I lived in the Quad...
...never done that before. Stayed quiet for so long… All stories deal with what cannot be said, cannot be written.” Instead, the story moves on to various other aspects of Jonas’s life: his history of ex-lovers or his adventures with childhood friends.Despite this dark and mysterious diversion, Kjaerstad manages to keep the vast majority of this novel light and upbeat. He easily manages this by narrating his story as a conversation between a secret source and the professor asked to write the biography of Jonas Wergeland. There are some chapters where...
...should we ask for more? This sentiment reflects all of the best motivations for extending childhood athletics to adult competition. While salaries of $20,000 to $30,000 for a “hobby” are no joke in a sagging economy, Veltman clearly takes a fun-loving approach to his place in the league...
...often veer towards intentional self-parody, with lines like “I need a cookie and a hug.” The lyrics work best when they undermine, rather than reinforce, the fuzzy cuteness of, well, everything else about the band.It is easy enough to create a wistful childhood fantasy land, but it is more interesting to examine its borders, where the defense mechanism of regression into childhood breaks down either from its own deliberate obliviousness or from an encounter with the so-called real world. “I Box Up All The Butterflies” shows this...