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Girls often build a low wall, sometimes with an elaborate doorway, surrounding a quiet interior scene. Boys are likely to construct towers, facades with cannons, and lively exterior scenes. Erikson acknowledges that cultural influences are at work, but he is convinced that they do not fully explain the nature of children's play. The differences, he says, "seem to parallel the morphology [shape and form] of genital differentiation itself: in the male, an external organ, erectible and intrusive; internal organs in the female, with vestibular access, leading to statically expectant...
...plane is on the ground. Just then Chou and a corporal's guard of officials come casually out. It is an understatement. Not in memory has a host not been in place when the presidential jet came to rest. The President and Pat Nixon appear in the doorway to a ripple of applause from Chou's thin line down below. After the Premier greets the President there is the usual small talk. Apparently...
...garden of the Finzi-Continis for all to see a welter of anti-Semitism, decadence, human weakness and human love; an Italy where never a crucifix is seen, only a Star of David carved into the stone gate-post of a Jewish graveyard, or a Hebrew inscription above the doorway of an elegant townhouse. De Sica finally limits his characters to a world of their own subjectivity, leaving untapped a world beyond the area of Italy and deeper than the physical eye can see. His creative vision is undoubtedly capable of exploring the far reaches of such worlds...
...Taking Off, Passer's film switches suddenly from slick comedy to terror and sordidness as JJ's companion mistakenly shoots himself up with rat poison intended for JJ and crumples to his death. JJ drags him to an elevator, then flees in fright. The body lies inert across the doorway, the arms flexing up over the chest and relaxing as the automatic door tries again and again to close...
...shadowy figure skulks in a doorway of the official Canberra residence of Australian Prime Minister William McMahon. Challenges, shots, anticlimaxes. The intruder gets away, the fuse in the Molotov cocktail he planted is blown out by the wind, and the P.M. and his pretty wife Sonia weren't there anyway. But Commonwealth police say that this is the third such bombing attempt by a group of right-wing extremists. Nothing to do but increase the guard at the McMahons' home...