Word: lads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lad doodled. The lower eyelid of a headlamp. A fender. A door window. A trunk. And wheels. Sometimes a teardrop, a spacecraft. Cars. Even hiding out behind the back desk of the third row wasn't enough to keep the Flint, Michigan, fourth-grader out of trouble, until an art teacher stopped by and became Tom Gale's first serious customer...
Luxury was scarce in William John Neeson's early life. He grew up in the mill town of Ballymena, in Northern Ireland. A strapping lad, he was a youthful boxing champion. "I thought I wanted to be professional. But I realized I didn't have the killer instinct." Soon he was driving a forklift at the Guinness brewery in Belfast by day, and at night filling the Lyric Theatre stage with roles like that of Lennie in Of Mice and Men. In 1986 he moved to Los Angeles, where he was felled by diverticulitis, an intestinal disorder. That experience scarred...
Perhaps the lad who wrote this one-sided screed should apply his talents to restaurant reviewing, where he can interview all the cooks who have been fired and ignore the food. He shows some promise as a humor writer: I laughed aloud at his contention that Richard's taking a sabbatical nine years into his job constitutes evidence of stress. If that be the case, then Harvard's entire senior faculty must be gobbling Valium by the case...
...film addresses that insoluble question: how to persuade the rest of the world that the adorable wee lad is actually evil incarnate? Mark (Elijah Wood) goes to stay with his aunt and uncle on the death of his mother. A few days of rougher-and-tumblier-than-expected play with his cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin) convince him that he is skating on thin ice, at times literally. But to grownups, Henry appears so harmless, and Mark himself has been acting so unstable since his mother's death, that no one will listen to him. Will Mark wrench the scales from...
...Weisfeld arranges for him to spend regular sessions at the Park Avenue apartment of "the maestro," practicing on a magnificent Bechstein piano. When the maestro dies, Claude inherits the instrument, which is crammed into Weisfeld's shop for Claude's exclusive use. Luminous pianists line up to give the lad free instructions. Fellowships to a posh East Side prep school and then to a select liberal arts college effortlessly materialize. Claude's heart is dented by the rich Catherine, but he goes on to marry her cousin Lady, who confides in passing that she has a trust fund worth...