Word: four-year-old
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...story he had written six months before, "Children of War" (Jan. 11, 1982). The children included a ten-year-old girl named Lara, whose parents were killed by the explosion of a car bomb in Beirut last September; a 15-year-old boy, Ahmed, a leader in a P.L.O. youth organization; a baby called Palestine who was born when her mother's stomach was slit open in a bombing raid of Beirut in the summer of 1981; and Samer, the four-year-old son of Colonel Azmi, head of the P.L.O. forces stationed around Tyre. The hope...
Rambaldi's monsterpiece is about the height of a four-year-old child, with a large, lumpy, pulsating skull, a neck that extends or retracts according to mood, skin that is a very alien gray-green when E.T. is healthy, and long, marvelously graceful arms with four-digit hands. He is very strange and complex in his repertory of emotions, although he is allowed only a ten-word speaking vocabulary (his voice is that of an 82-year-old woman with some electronic distortion). He is onscreen most of the time, and he takes a firm, sure hold...
...night of July 19, 1907, Alexei, the only son of Nicholas and Alexandra, the Tsar and Tsarina of Imperial Russia, lay in his bed, hemorrhaging. The four-year-old suffered from hemophilia-the hereditary "bleeder" disease for which turn-of-the-century medicine knew no remedy. In desperation the father and mother sent for a holy man, then the rage of St. Petersburg society...
...says one observer. "They're not here to lie in the sun and get high." On the contrary, they are irrepressibly energetic outdoor people who play tennis at 10, golf at 2 and racquetball at 5. Their favorite sport is polo. Center of the action is the four-year-old Palm Beach Polo and Country Club. The P.B.P.C.C. has eleven polo fields (each ten times the size of a football field) surrounded by condominiums, villas and single-family homes. There is also a complex in Boca Raton called the Royal Palm Polo-Sports Club, with seven fields...
...upstairs flat. She says the owner is on a trip to the U.S., but they are not convinced. Three of them go back to their truck, get axes and saws and knock the steel door off its hinges. There is no one inside. My four-year-old son is terrified. Over and over again he says, "Bad soldiers . . . bad soldiers...