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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...
...theme-that adults, for all their wisdom and experience, fail to appreciate what is truly important character finds himself stranded on this planet, in suburban California, no less. Scientists-adults-have scared off the rest of his intergalactic expedition. After days of successfully avoiding these intellectual predators, E.T. discovers Elliott-probably about 10 years old-who takes him home and takes care...
...learns about Earth through a child's eyes, a perspective director Steven Spielberg emphasizes by filming parts of the movie at Elliot's height. The waddling little fellow lives among the stuffed animals, puppets and toys in Elliott's vast collection. He first learns to speak from Big Bird on Sesame Street. And his initial introduction to human society is Elliott's monologue about the artifacts on his desk. These are little men...This is Screedo, and Hammerhead, and Walrusman, and Snaggletooth...They can even have wars. (Holding up a ceramic peanut bank) This is a peanut...
...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...