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Eleven-month-old Matthew Cromwell was listless and had vomit in his hair when his mother picked him up in 1981 at the day care center in Clayton, Calif. Eight hours later he was dead of asphyxiation, apparently caused by blows to the stomach. Dozens of other children, their parents later reported, had come home from the same center with large bruises and emotional scars. Arrested for murder and child abuse, the center's operator, Eleanor Nathan, 36, knew that the only eyewitnesses against her were youngsters. Until lately the testimony of little children was rarely allowed in court...
...looks more like a concentration camp than a refugee sanctuary. A barren mud flat smaller than a football field, it was originally designed to hold 800 people. Today it is home to more than 1,900 listless Vietnamese "land people," who singly or in family groups bribed their way across Cambodia, which is still occupied by 160,000 Vietnamese troops. Jumbled together inside 27 tents, the refugees each have a coffin-size sliver of space, 6 ft. by 3 ft., in which to rest and sleep. Living conditions for new arrivals are even more crowded: they are housed...
Burt Young also manages to everyone the limits of the script to portray Jerry as a sensitive, almost childlike, individual, not merely the bumbling sidekick of the fast-talking Alex. As Patti, however, Ann-Margaret is listless; she seems to have given up on trying to inject any energy into here role. Of course, the script never gives her a chance: Patti's character is merely a contrivance of the plot--an extra ingredient thrown into the stew to provide an attractive diversion from the rather bland main course...
...they watch more than ten hours a week? Is their concentration span divided into seven-minute segments, the usual time between commercials? Do they require instant gratification? Do they feel a closer kinship to Oscar the Grouch than to their own cantankerous Uncle Oscar? Are they video zombies, listless and lethargic while viewing, revved up like the roadsters on The Dukes of Hazzard when they are not? As for parents, many of the same symptoms apply. Adults, however, are far more apt than children to deceive themselves about their own TV compulsion. Like alcoholics, says Wilkins, adults hooked...
...BATTLE WILL RAGE in the Quincy House JCR this weekend. The warriors will only brandish a toy pistol and a letter opener, but the combat will be fierce enough to keep the most listless audience enthralled. On this unlikely battlefield, a small, talented cast is presenting Strindberg's The Creditors. Not one blow is struck in this fine production, but it leaves the impression of a great carnage...