Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operate at minimum levels, providing little more than emergency and necessity services. But as the College emptied out for the spring recess, the B&G workers quietly agreed to return to their jobs. Late in the afternoon of March 24, B&G operations were returning to normal...
...many ways, they are a normal group of kids. They have probably seen more of Boston than most Harvard students; the majority attend local public schools; they love McDonald's ice skating, or climbing rocks on the North Shore...
...children do express their deprivation in various ways. Once, when a counselor was playfully roughhousing with a child, the boy suddenly drew back in fear, saying, "You hit me!" Their play is less constructive than is normal for children their ages; they seem to prefer throwing rocks and sticks to building blocks or story-telling. Under constant peer pressure, their level of competition increases to the point where many children seek the heaviest stones, and boast of having the strongest muscles...
...Such previous emotional trauma sometimes produces gaps in their basic thought processes: one 12-year-old guessed there were 21 months in a year, while a seven-year-old declared, "Owls eat people--I know because I was one last week." Thoughts like that do not seem to be normal childhood fantasies...
...precious little ever does take place. At the end of the film, Violet is leaving New Orleans to start a normal life; the movie closes with a freeze frame of her face while she waits for a train north. Malle apparently believes this closeup resolves his story: he wants to show that Violet has already started to harden into a dull, defeated adult. But one look at Shields' face and we see that Malle is wrong. The fascinating secrets of this girl's childhood still lurk in her wide blue eyes, waiting to be unlocked. Far from being...