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...outside our building. This led to the high point of animal inhabitancy: seven cats, three humans, and two goldfish I won at the Presbyterian Church carnival, a veritable menagerie in a two-bedroom apartment.I guess I grew up in a family where pets were members of the family. My childless aunt and uncle sent us photos of their Scottie dogs every few months, and queries about the cats (“How are Castor and Pollux?”) always followed the personal greeting when we called my grandmother. One of the Presbyterian goldfish lived for five years with...
...Spit (James Fraser)—as a desperate search to find stability tears them in different directions. Each struggle for emotional satiation ends in disappointment. The frustration is most poignant in the case of Maps, the eldest. While the younger three vie for the affection of a childless couple, Maps sees parental figures with a hardened, distrustful gaze and instead turns to the overstated sexuality of Lucy (Teresa Palmer), the town’s fair-haired fast girl. Radcliffe, who has clearly found his niche in the troubled-orphan role, plays the part well. As with his full-frontal...
Police have since investigated thousands of leads and theories, some quite elaborate, including the much discussed idea that an international ring of pedophiles stakes out children for days and then extracts them with military precision. Another possibility explored was that a desperate childless couple paid a professional kidnapper to find a child. The rise of Hollywood theories--a cabal of James Bond pedophiles?--stemmed from the lack of physical evidence...
...Fung Stories was followed by 1994's Flying Over Childhood - a childless man's deeply empathetic survey of Hong Kong's young (and with an English title, Growing Up in Hong Kong, that doesn't capture the playful poetry of the original). In 1997, he published what was to be his last collection, A Hundred Changes (again, poorly translated from Chinese as City Vibrance). It was a then-and-now volume in which Yau revisited locations he had documented decades earlier in order to record the invariably startling transformations that had taken place in the interim. These books...
Like many a childless couple, we conferred the status of treasured child upon the dog. We phoned each other with updates of his escapades. We gave him nicknames like Bunny and Sir Gas-a-lot. Framed photos of him adorned our home and my office. For Christmas portraits, we dressed him in a Santa...