Word: nine-year-old
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Presentations sped forward with the verve of a variety show, thanks to “Miss Sweetie-poo,” a nine-year-old girl in a flowered dress who said, “Please stop—I’m bored,” repeatedly until long-winded speakers brought their oratory to a halt...
...granted a visit with the Rinpoche (head monk) at Tango Monastery. He is the reincarnation of the monk who built the monastery 500 years ago. Nine years old but looking even younger, he peers out at me from a pair of glasses with lenses so thick I cannot see his eyes through them. I feel awkward and self-conscious, for although he is tiny, he has the composed presence of an old man. I think of my nine-year-old brother at home playing on his bike, and then of this nine-year old boy, sequestered in a house above...
...protagonist. (Jen divides the narration among her five characters, each offering rejoinders in separate paragraphs. It's a clever effect, even if it sometimes feels like a staged reading of a new play that is still a revision away from completion.) Carnegie, along with Lizzy and precocious nine-year-old Wendy, is quick to fall under Lan's spell. They love her cooking and hang on Lan's bitter horror stories of life during the Cultural Revolution. As Lan insinuates herself into the family, she seems not to be usurping Blondie so much as taking her rightful place, exactly...
...that ain?t my nature / I?m full of vitamin A, say!?), each girl semaphored ?hate? with raised palms and formed an A by touching her open thumbs and forefingers. When they repeated the bridge and got to ?Vitamin A,? the seven-year-old deftly lifted the nine-year-old off the floor and into her arms. They belted out the last verse (?In a year or two or three/ Maybe we will be too old?) and concluded to rapturous applause from the audience of three: Mary, me and their beaming...
...Hattori-kun (Hattori the Ninja)?based on a 1960s comic and 1980s cartoon of the same name?comes out in August and stars Shingo Katori, of the popular boy band SMAP, as an overearnest ninja who moves from a feudal village to modern Tokyo, where he serves a nine-year-old master. Hattori speaks in outdated formalities, struggles to maintain the ninja code of self-concealment in the crowded city, and ends up in all sorts of trouble. The other big-ticket remake now in the works is Tetsujin 28-go (Iron Man 28), based on one of Japan...