Word: mama
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...Europe kids grow up different -- earlier and tougher. Parents still wield authority; Papa could be Yahweh with a toothache, and Mama could sell her daughter into child prostitution. And because Death hangs around the house like a spinster aunt, the kids must ever be packed off to relatives for whom child care is just the latest of life's dirty tricks. Sometimes the kids run away and never come back. No wonder children in European films often look like stunted adults. Since birth they've been in a dress rehearsal for distress...
...Querida Mama...
...tribal groups into a nightmarish civil war of the kind that has left tens of thousands dead in Somalia and Liberia. Shortages of food and gasoline are severe; road and rail links between major cities have been virtually swallowed by the encroaching jungle. Even in the capital's Mama Yemo hospital -- named for Mobutu's deceased mother -- children suffer without medication, and hundreds of victims of the AIDS epidemic die untreated. In the trackless bush, where millions of peasants and tribesmen still live, the scourges of leprosy, trypanosomiasis and malaria are again pandemic...
MIRETTE ON THE HIGH WIRE by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam; $14.95). In Mama's boardinghouse, little Mirette is surrounded by famous acrobats. None is more attractive than M. Bellini, a tightrope walker who has suddenly lost his courage. Mirette can restore it, but only if she accompanies him on his walk over the rooftops of Paris. Wistful watercolors evoke turn-of-the-century France, and the narrative is as taut as the high wire itself...
Attentive parents can find other reminders of the glory days of their own youth. A&M Records' Tim Noah belts out a Springsteen-style anthem: "I was raised on rock 'n' roll/ Bo Diddley, Fats Domino/ Mama rocked me by the radio/ Raised on rock 'n' roll." Rory, who records for Sony, does a tongue-in-cheek imitation of Diana Ross in a cut from her album I'm Just a Kid. This Saturday, Radio AAHS, a 24-hour children's station in Minneapolis, will sponsor a concert featuring well-known kids' performers like Joanie Bartels and Bob McGrath. They...