Word: lads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safe place -- sports, scouting, computer gaming -- where they can hang out until they are ready to hold their own with the girls, a process that can take years. Most home video games, unfortunately, are derived from coin-operated arcade models that were designed not to build up a lad's fragile ego but to defeat him and take away his quarters...
...lad in Texas in the 1950s, Terrence McNally learned his catechism. But he may never have heard a commandment expressed more fervently than the prayer he has written in his new play, A Perfect Ganesh...
...favorite hero and budding father figure. But there are differences between reel life and real life. The boy writes a certain word on a piece of paper and asks the man to say it out loud. Jack declines the challenge, and Danny knows why. "You can't," the lad crows. "You can't possibly say it! Because this movie...
...Queen Elizabeth (Quentin Crisp) deeds a great English manor to handsome young Lord Orlando (Tilda Swinton) on one condition: "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old." The lad takes the monarch's admonition to heart and, miraculously, ages not at all from that day to this. Orlando is a fellow in love with love -- ever eager to die upon a kiss, but destined to live forever apart from those mortals he cherishes. In 1610 he falls for a fickle Russian princess (Charlotte Valandrey). One day, a century and a half later, he wakes...
...poor immigrant lad arrives in the U.S. with nothing in his luggage but talent, a dream and the capacity for hard work. He overcomes prejudice, stuffy conservatives in his profession and a debilitating accident that should have left him crippled for life. Along the way, he acquires a sweet and understanding wife who not only comforts him but also inspires him in adversity...