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...time of that meeting, Dole also telephoned Trent Lott to ask what he would think of a Dole-Kemp combination. "Lott was stunned," according to one of the Senator's advisers, but spoke warmly of Kemp. Meanwhile, Dole seemed more interested in the possibility of bringing Bennett aboard. Grownup without being elderly, the best-selling author of The Book of Virtues possessed not only the intellect but the gravitas to shoulder the Dole campaign into a debate on values, where Dole himself moves reluctantly. Bennett is a Catholic, and the Dole team badly wants the Catholic vote...
...imagines, for very long. Much as we all enjoy a sloppy wallow in cheap sentiment, it is hard to imagine anyone wanting to watch Robin Williams further degrade in Jack what was one of the movies' most valuable gifts. The film is a Big variant--a kid inhabiting a grownup's body and getting into all sorts of trouble as a result. But we're not talking about an ill-considered wish going merrily awry here. We're talking about a tragic illness. For Jack doesn't just get older and hairier, he keeps aging at four times the normal...
...child in such circumstances may become a monster or a drunk, as the children of the famous sometimes do. Or else he submits to a reversal in nature: he accepts his role as the grownup in the house. He parents his infantile parents. He skips much of childhood and gets to be 14 going...
...this Liv Tyler is not guilty. A card-carrying adolescent, less than a month shy of her 19th birthday, Tyler is an ingenue unflustered by her sexuality, one who has lately been busy cultivating her inner grownup. She will appear in four movies in the next year, having caught the eye of some world-class directors. Woody Allen, for instance, who cast her in his latest film but, alas, had to drop the subplot line in which she was featured when the first cut of the movie ran over three hours. Nevertheless, the reticent director calls her "a wonderful actress...
...hard not to say, All right, let's go through this again. The parent is the grownup, right? The one with the duty to love and protect the distinctly different one, called child; the grownup is the one who says no. Understood? It is not enough for a child to want something. The parent is supposed to decide whether it's a good idea--whether, above all, it is safe...