Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plastic bags. And the protagonists inflict plain as well as suffer it. In "Hollow," the young man Buddy shoots a doe and indressing it cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills, though, but rather to sharpen the reader's awareness that injury and cruelly are facts of life. The moments show more clearly how the characters bear pain and the problems...
...Queen never travels without cases of Malvern spring water from the hills of Worcestershire, a monogrammed electric kettle for the royal cup of China tea, her own kid lavatory seat and an attache case filled with the homeopathic remedies that her granny reared her on. An ever present handbag (she would sooner go outside without shoes than leave it be hind) is her security blanket: it gives her something to do with her hands and holds her glasses and makeup...
...dental and legal clinics. Gradually it has become the fashion for mobile suburban youths to hang out in the malls, perhaps much the same way their fathers lounged around the old corner drug store. And the biggest attraction of each modern mecca is the mall arcade, where a kid can lose himself for hours in the sense-numbing, noisy darkness, as long as his quarters hold...
...During the following scene, Papa tears himself away from his family to flee back to the United States. All the participants in this emotionally charged situation, however, seem emotionally uninvolved. Papa moves as if someone offstage is yelling directions at him: Over here, no, over there! Now hit the kid. Now kiss the wife...
...that Harvard has finally become the HAVEN OF REFUGE for discarded politicians" Other such thinkers have sent a number of theories for Harvard consumption, for instance. The Gold Arthritis Theory, the astrology proof theory. On Education of Minors, and the Jewish leukemia theory (offered by a self-proclaimed "Atomic Kid...