Word: kalahari
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Ongoing. "Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari...
Ongoing. "Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari...
Peabody Museum. "Encounters with the Americas," ongoing. "Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari," ongoing. "Worlds in Miniature, Worlds Apart: Dioramas, Models, and Mannequins," ongoing. The Hall of the North American Indian, ongoing...
...Place, three kids in their early teens -- a New York City boy (Ethan Randall), a white girl raised in Africa (Reese Witherspoon) and a Bushman (Sarel Bok) -- find that poachers have massacred the white children's parents, so they resolve to cross 1,300 miles of the Kalahari Desert to alert the law. The cutesy Homeward Bound is the same story, with three variations: the family is missing, not dead; the hostile terrain is the Western U.S.; and the intrepid youngsters are two dogs and a cat (voiced by Michael J. Fox, Sally Field and Don Ameche). Only the species...
...downside of independence is isolation, and it's in this psychological Kalahari that non-American kid movies dare to dwell. Some of 1992's most ; provocative and poignant European films -- Toto le Heros, Olivier Olivier and The Long Day Closes, to be released in the U.S. in May -- are about children whom cruelty or circumstance forces to create a world of their own. Il Ladro di Bambini has this theme. The state has removed two children (Valentina Scalici and Giuseppe Ieracitano) from their mother's care, since for two years she has forced the girl, 11, to be a child...