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...days later I realized I had lost some things, too. My black leather backpack which my friend Martin threw up on a week after my mom bought it for me, was gone. Inside it had been my black leather address book, my black leather cuticle set and a pair of engraved scissors...
...spring over a bottle I had found at the bottom of Walden Pond. It marked the first time I went skinny-dipping there. My friends declared, "There was a reason it was on the bottom of Walden Pond, it's worthless!"). It took me two weeks to tell my mom about the bag. She took it pretty well, I'd say. To this day I honestly have no idea where it is. Perhaps the tenant accidently packed it away with her stuff and hasn't found...
...relax about The Client. Of the boys of this summer, Mark Sway is the most interesting. He's a sort of updated Huck Finn. Mark is smart, self-reliant and deeply suspicious of grownups ) -- with good reason, as it turns out. Out in the woods, smoking cigarettes stolen from Mom, he encounters a man in the process of committing suicide. Trying (and failing) to prevent it -- the sequence is good and scary -- Mark learns where a certain very interesting body is buried...
...families like the Barrys who are in need of an alternative, the answer may lie in one of entertainment's hottest new concepts: pint-size suburban parks that don't require a plane ride or two days of travel and don't take a $300 chomp out of Mom and Dad's paycheck. Popping up along highways across the country, the supermarket-size playpens are quickly capturing the niche between mega-theme parks and video arcades. The range of activities -- batting cages, bumper boats, go-cart tracks -- lures exhausted parents, bored teenagers and desperate baby sitters who prefer to spend...
...Filmmakers often say the American public doesn't want complicated films full of thought," says Field, who is outstanding as the heroic mom in this edgy valentine. "They are wrong. They underestimate the intelligence of the American audience." But does Forrest Gump make you think? No, it makes you feel -- or, at best, makes you think about what you feel, and about how long it has been since a movie found those remote corners of sympathy and sentiment...