Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...message in Steven Spielberg's E.T. is similar, but hardly as pessimistic, The main characters in this film are not merely likeable; they're irresistible. The relationship between the boy, Elliott (Henry Thomas), and his extraterrestrial friend is so real that we almost forget that E.T. is a mechanical creature. Spielberg draws our attention away from the technological wizardry and toward the human side of the story, toward the very simple themes of love and friendship...
...creature. In the opening sequence, they are filmed from a child's perspective, so that their heads are out of the camera's range. They become more foreign to the audience than the spaceman himself. They are the enemy because they represent a complete lack of subjective feeling. To Elliott, E.T. is a friend--a cross between a pet and a bosom buddy; to them, he is merely a subject for scrutiny...
Indeed, the First Lady was never on familiar terms with love. Her mother, who seems not to have cared much for the child, died when Eleanor was eight, and her beloved father, Teddy Roosevelt's charming, doomed younger brother Elliott, died when she was ten, after two years during which he was exiled from his family for drunkenness and other sins. She was an awkward, serious girl, nicknamed "Granny" by her mother. She did arouse at least the admiration of her cousin Franklin, whom she married when she was 20, but her attitude toward sex, which she recommended...
...prolonged U.S. recession and high interest rates (the prime last week: 16.5%) as "the foremost international obstacles" to Canada's economic recovery." The impact of U.S. policy on Canada is indisputable, but many businessmen on both sides of the border also think that Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau's "Canadianization" program deserves some of the blame. Measures to increase Canadian ownership of the U.S.-dominated oil and gas industries to 50% by 1990 and to ensure that foreign investment projects benefit Canada have had a stultifying effect on business activity and encouraged investment capital to leave Canada. Says...
...charming relationship develops between the creature, millions of miles away from home, and the child, fatherless and ostracized as a weirdo by the gang. Elliott (Henry Thomas) makes his new friend feel at home in the toy closet, feeding him with periodic refrigerator raids. The two become so close that they even begin to feel the same things. When E.T., upstairs, accidentally opens an umbrella, Elliott, downstairs, jumps in surprise. The next day E.T., left home alone, discovers the wonders of earthling beer. Elliott, at school, gets drunk. In fact, Elliott, with his teenaged brother and little sister, Gertie, succeed...