Word: childrenã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Vietnam war offensive) to the joys of plastic toys. It is worth the price of admission alone to see this child, raised in a peace-loving commune, pretend to torture another child with electrodes—for fun—and it is a tribute to both the children??s skills as actors and Moodysson’s skill as a director that the scene ends up funny...
...just as the commune’s members force Elizabeth to question her routine, she forces them to question theirs. Would a television really be so terrible? Is children??s heroine Pippi Longstocking really a bourgeois capitalist? And if so, does it matter so much? By the time Stefan and Tet start picketing for hot dogs, we feel their pain: No one can live off of chickpeas forever. Elizabeth, with her cheesy music and relatively conventional wisdom, has forced her new friends to think not about what should make them happy, but what does make them happy. Perhaps...
...lost her father to cancer at an early age. During her freshman and sophomore years at Harvard, she volunteered her time in the bone-marrow transplant ward at Children??s Hospital, and near the end of that second year she found herself moved up to the inpatient cancer floor. She noticed a difference right away. This wasn’t bone-marrow transplantation, where her patients were already in the process of recovering and some day soon were going to be just fine...
...years no one outside of Dana Farber and practically no one inside it knew anything about the original “Jimmy” of the eponymous Fund. They knew that there had been a 1948 broadcast—when the Dana Farber Center, then known as the Children??s Cancer Research Foundation, was one year old—of the Ralph Edwards Show from the bedside of a boy identified only as “Jimmy” to protect his privacy. Edwards was conducting a radio-thon to buy Jimmy a TV so that Jimmy...
...routine check-up in the Children??s Memorial Hospital in Brookline, MA, in 1970 provided the inspiration...