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...Berlin. Stroszek begins on a note of hope as the film's protagonist gains his release from a local mental institution. Played by a German actor going under the nom de theatre of Bruno S., the Stroszek character quickly becomes an awkward and self-conscious symbol of the social orphan. Herzog sketches the despair and alienation of the vagrant with an unflinching vengeance...
DADDY WARBUCKS KNEW how to play the game, Just let anybody mess around with his little orphan, Annie--Asian smuuglers, Russian spies out to topple the free world, mad opthamologists aiming to give her a pupil transplant--and the fun would start. Before Sandy could even "Arf," Daddy would be on the scene in his 200-foot yacht, puffing on a dark Havana as he watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion...
...real orphan of a bill: no politician wanted to claim credit for its parentage. Small wonder. It proposed throwing one-third of the legislators in Massachusetts' 240-seat house of representatives out of jobs. "It wasn't me that pushed it," declared House Speaker Thomas McGee in a typical disclaimer last week. "It wasn't McGee...
Sometimes the desire to avoid sentimentality abolishes sentiment. A wide-eyed Little Orphan Annie is precisely what one expects, but a dry-eyed Little Orphan Annie is a contradiction in terms. Perhaps through the innate temperament of its teen-age star, Andrea McArdle, an aridity of mood pervades Annie. There is no suggestion of a waif in this 14-year-old, who keeps any warmth or vulnerability on a very tight leash. And what, after all, is the strong. affectionate bond between Annie and her dog Sandy except that both are waifs and strays...
Annie runs away, is recaptured, and escapes again when Oliver ("Daddy") Warbucks (Reid Shelton) makes a request for an orphan child on whom to lavish a billionaire's Christmas bounty. Guess the rest; it's no great test. Of course, you might not guess that President Franklin D. Roosevelt would be tastelessly trundled on in a wheelchair and be smarmily caricatured by Raymond Thorne. And you might not dream that the updated Daddy Warbucks is as chummy with F.D.R. as he is with Bernard Baruch...