Word: dwarf
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...many weeks at the top of the stairs facing the front door. That was where she and the boy had waited together whenever my husband and I had left the house without them. In the garden, next to the pond that the boy dog loved, I will plant a dwarf crab apple tree. It will flower in the spring...
...McDonagh's plays, even the most seemingly normal person can turn out to be a sociopath. In his feature debut, In Bruges, the sociopaths turn out to be as normal as the rest of us. The movie offers up carnage, emotional torment and a racist dwarf as it follows two hit men sent to the Belgian city after a job gone bad - but, in the end, it's really just a tale of love and honor. McDonagh describes the film as the most hopeful thing he has ever written. "It's about guilt, redemption, self-sacrifice, and it could have...
...minutes that director Tom McCarthy’s new movie “The Visitor” isn’t as understated as his last offering, 2004’s critically-acclaimed Sundance hit “The Station Agent.” The story of an introverted dwarf and his cautious friendships was quiet, tender, and moving. These qualities are still present in “The Visitor,” but some of the subtleties are lost behind the movie’s commentary on illegal immigration. When Vale (Richard Jenkins, “Six Feet Under?...
...book. In “Searching for a Bride,” she described her struggles and accomplishments as a matchmaker for her son Nico. In “Ballroom Dancing and Chocolate,” she described her husband Willie, while in “The Perverted Dwarf,” she sardonically described his initial attempts at writing a novel himself. Allende has worked as both a novelist and a journalist. Her books have been translated into 27 languages and have become best-sellers in four continents. In addition, she said that she writes letters to her mother...
...some ways this is inevitable. Compared with art's history, which is largely sorted out, the present is always a mess, full of dwarf stars and bit players. Any of-the-moment show is guaranteed to bring those in by the carload. It doesn't help that in some years the Biennial's organizers have had a weakness for the slapdash and infantile, and in others for the most schoolmarmish kind of political correctness...