Word: lads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...critic for one of the seedier London newspapers until he arose during an idiotic stage performance and screamed curses. At liberty, he is asked by a terminally ill goddaughter to find out whether a moody 15-year-old boy, Wallace's godson, really has a powerful healing gift. The lad, it appears, lays on not merely hands but sexual parts to effect his cures and in this way seems to have worked wonders with the god-daughter, an elderly gay houseguest and a sick mare...
Imagine that. (I did.) "Please pass the boiled cabbage, mum...Not until you've finished your pint of Guinness, lad!" And, by the way, that's Celtic as in "Keltic...
Approach one of these eager-beaver debaters and ask a really hard question. You might want to bring a dictaphone to capture the 15-minute spew, too. Just assure the lad that he won't be punished for going over the time limit, and try to deconstruct his constructive...
...industry that softens virtually any contentious social issue -- aids, the Holocaust, Vietnam -- into a fable with a happy ending, Forrest is the ultimate sentimental figure. He embodies that noble Hollywood precept, the spiritual superiority of the handicapped. Forrest is not the ranter on the subway or the sullen, overgrown lad at the back of the class. He is -- well, just...
Forrest Gump is nobody special, but he meets special people. In his 30-year odyssey through recent American history, this crippled Alabama lad with a 75 IQ bumps into Elvis and John Lennon, J.F.K. and L.B.J., Nixon and Mao. Forrest is an innocent on loan to a cynical world, and in the movie bearing his name he would make little sense if he were played by anyone but Tom Hanks...