Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Small Change. Taking in this new Truffaut is like leafing through a photoalbum of adorable kid pictures. Call this movie a funny, touching toast to the gameness of gamins. Settling into the day-to-day routine of a comfortable French provincial town, Truffaut introduces us, through loosely coordinated vignettes, to all the little grade school tykes and all their mischievous goings-on. This stuff could have become soupy, but Truffaut has retained a clever rascal's nose for stage-stealing devilry. (One example: the town detective's daughter refused to accompany her parents to a restaurant without a mangy...
...lives. We have the same variety of aspiration, achievement, and human warmth. We are everywhere that you are, and share large parts of your lives: in school, in your sport, on the U.S. Olympic team, in business, in your home, and even in your family, in other words: the kid next door, someone's brother, sister, daughter...
When I was a kid, one of my biggest thrills--ranking close to when I first "made out" in a choir loft in sixth grade--was the first time I got my name in the Los Angeles Times sports page. Me on the same page as Jerry West. Heaven. It was a box score for a 7th grade basketball tournament typed in the microscopic print developed especially for insurance policies. But who cared; I was young and had sharp eyes and anyway there it was, "Baggott...
...fact, after he resigned his party post in January, he planned to return to his highly lucrative private law practice; his firm has offices in Dallas and Washington. Strauss, who is already wealthy, liked to crack that he "looked forward to getting rich-a poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns to survive." Strauss made his fortune in law, banking and television stations. Though not an avid swimmer, Strauss built a large pool at his luxurious Dallas home so that he could look out and, as he puts it, say to himself: "Strauss, you are a rich sumbitch...
...precocious, negative 14-year-old--a big, tough kid," Calhoun recalled. "He locked two nine-year-olds in a refrigerator and killed them, then knifed another kid. He wasn't schizophrenic--just a malicious character with violent tendencies." Calhoun said the boy was now serving a sentence at Concord. "In a couple of quirky cases," Calhoun said, "the kid's definition of manhood is Walpole...