Word: hugs
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...props to develop the adult characters. Sitcoms like “Full House,” “Saved By The Bell” and “Blossom” showed more about kids and teens, but only in short plots that were wrapped up with a hug and a happy ending in 30 minutes. “90210” was the first show to put adolescents in serious situations and show them from their perspective...
...roles to remind us that they're really lovable scamps on a holiday in the sewers; that may have been what kept their performances from being admired then, and what makes them admirable now. Similarly, "Sweet Smell" is cherished today because it never stoops, or even stops, for a hug from the audience. It wanted only to be understood...
...counseling. The sessions, at first, were always at night in O'Connell's office, just 15 feet from his bedroom. One night, in November of 1983, after Doe had come to the office for a prayer session, Doe says O'Connell concluded it by giving him a bear hug - and grabbing his crotch. "I was shocked," says Doe, sobbing in an interview with TIME; but given how slight in both stature and experience he was, "it was overwhelming," and difficult to resist...
...most children, a hug is all it takes to treat the bruise from a playground fall. But when Dalton Dawes collided with a classmate on his first day of preschool three years ago, the bleeding inside his shoulder would not stop. Dalton, an 8-year-old with fine blond hair and intelligent blue eyes who lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a hemophiliac. What prevents the mishaps of childhood from killing him is $2,000-a-week injections of a medication called Mononine. But no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather...
...when the buzzer sounded, the players swarmed the floor in a massive team hug. Hordes of photographers and young fans surrounded the team as they accepted the Ivy plate and cut down...