Word: nine-year-old
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...Nine-year-old: A sock has veins...
...your daughter wants to dress like Malibu Barbie or Li'l Kim and you don't like that, you should help her make a different choice. When an eight- or nine-year-old girl picks an outfit that is just too outrageous for public consumption, a parent should acknowledge her decision ("Boy, I can tell you think that's really great!") and help her find a compromise ("...but let's just get the skirt today because I'm not so sure that top is good for a kid your age"). A young adolescent should start to learn about the signals...
Here Bergman has fictionalized or, possibly, is revealing more than he has before. What is obvious is that the law of unintended consequences stirs steadily beneath the surface of Faithless. Its largest impact is on Marianne's nine-year-old daughter, devastated by the breakup of a seemingly contented marriage, who then, of all horrendous things, is invited to join her father in suicide. It is her innocent victimhood--her betrayal by heedless adults--that emerges most clearly and movingly in the film...
...other day as he discussed that time. His familiar soft drawl - a sweet voice, with that undercurrent of regret and wonder that signals a southerner's nostalgia drifting back over a considerable distance - called back in my own mind a summer in southern Maryland many years ago, when I was a nine-year-old white boy and my best friend was Charles, the son of a black tenant farmer...
...since sex, lies, and videotape jump-started his career, you might also wonder why it has taken Soderbergh so long to capitalize on its success. "I was very young, still trying to figure out my strengths and weaknesses," explains Soderbergh, who turns 38 this month and has a nine-year-old daughter, Sarah, with his ex-wife, actress Betsy Brantley...