Word: infantalizing
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...tens of millions of immigrants washed onto America's shores between 1880 and 1920, the infant movie industry provided more than fantastic diversion; it was a passport to the American dream. In the back rooms of penny arcades as dark and crowded as steerage on a ship chugging toward Ellis Island, they saw magic, moving shadows that served as a crash course in their adoptive country's history, behavior, values, ideals and follies. A maiden defends her honor; Jack Johnson defends a heavyweight title; firemen career through city streets toward a blazing house; bandits rob a train, and the sheriff...
...findings, which were based on a telephone survey of 50 toy sellers. It claims still to be No. 1. But even if sales momentum has slowed, Coleco hopes to build an ever growing patch of ancillary products. Toy stores currently stock Coleco's Cabbage Patch doll pets ('Koosas) and infant dolls (Preemies). Coming soon: a doll-size fun fur, a pet pony and dolls dressed in foreign garb...
...that household. Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves from one enterprise to another, successively teaching flamenco dancing, building a zeppelin, running a chicken-sandwich factory, traveling around India clad in an infant's diaper, and writing a 1,500-page treatise on the 99 names...
Carlton Johnson was suffering from spina bifida, a condition in which the spine is not closed, as an infant at Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City in 1981. On the advice of hospital doctors, his parents did not request corrective surgery. Carlton survived, thanks in part to a later operation, but is now mentally retarded. Last week the hospital was accused of withholding treatment from a number of afflicted infants based on "quality of life" considerations, thus causing the death of 24 babies...
...front, the people of Harrison wage a losing battle against influenza. Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts), a clothier who fell in love with a well-to-do girl, is anxious about being sent to the war; he sees conscription as desertion of his wife Lizzie (Hallie Foote), his infant daughter and the baby on the way. While Lizzie's winsome wastrel of a brother (Matthew Broderick) gets into trouble with gambling debts and a pregnant girlfriend, Horace falls victim to the flu. There is a death in the family, and a birth. In Harrison, though, life's scars are hidden...