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...lecture on class--but his children are marvels. A young boy, the son of one of Chardin's collectors, soberly kitted out in black tricorn hat and mole-colored coat, is attentively building a house of cards--that emblem of fragility that nonetheless does not fall. Another lad, not 10 years old, watches with the most exquisitely rendered absorption the fate of a spinning top on a writing table; it leans under the pull of gravity but is still (only just) erect...
...drunk and vomiting in the middle of London's Leicester Square. EUAN BLAIR, 16, apparently went on a bender to celebrate the end of final exams. After initially giving police a false name, address and age (he claimed to be 18), Euan's true identity was revealed and the lad promptly delivered to 10 Downing St. "If anyone breaks the law, they should suffer the penalty of the law, whether they are my son or anyone else's son," said the Prime Minister, who was stumping for instant fines for public drunkenness just days before the incident. But the police...
...abandoned egg hatches in the midst of a lemur band--grumpy papa, adoring mom, frisky siblings. His idyllic upbringing is interrupted by a meteor shower--prefiguring the extinction of the species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and his pals back to a barren mainland and the lad's struggle to assert the values of a new masculine style in a sere landscape where the dino herd is ruled by the cranky and politically incorrect Kron (Samuel E. Wright...
...lost, I beat those fellas afterwards. So you could say that I rectified the defeats that I had. I remember the one time I beat this one fella up pretty good and when someone asked him what happened the next day, he just said, 'I fought that Rawson lad...
...also cursed by it--achingly aware, as any disabled child must be, of the things everyone else takes for granted but which he is forbidden. In the film's most passionate moment, this insightful boy cries out to God to explain why he is sightless. But the lad has even sterner tests in store...