Word: playpens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost child and moves into it. She sleeps all day and leaves the tending of her infant daughter to the two males in the house. In a nice vignette, young Vincent comes home, sees that his sister is being ignored, picks up her rattles and puts them in the playpen, then walks through the foyer, knocking over a vase that smashes on the floor as he passes. The heart's violence has rarely been dramatized with such telling nonchalance...
Harvard encourages freshmen to be babies. The Yard is the playpen where all of the kids can frolic together. Annenberg is Harvard's answer to the kid's table--no grown ups allowed. Proctors are our parents and, prefects are the older siblings in the know. For me, it's perfect. I get another year of childhood. But what will become of me in the future? I am not ready to stop giggling...
...Harvard encourages freshmen to be babies. The Yard is the playpen where all of the kids can frolic together. Annenberg is Harvard's answer to the kid's table--no grown ups allowed. Proctors are our parents and, prefects are the older siblings in the know. For me, it's perfect. I get another year of childhood. But what will become of me in the future? I am not ready to stop giggling...
There are adults who, through choice or parental servitude, have learned to love the TV show. It seems to understand the baby imperatives (either suck on a bottle or break out of the playpen and scope out the great wide world) while treating the grownup figures with the same genial ribbing the kids get. Tommy the explorer and Chuckie, his friend with the orange shock top and a chronically fretful nature, are attractive opposites; three-year-old Angelica is a finely drawn priss. The animation is distinctive and supple, suggesting Max Fleischer and the Modernist Zagreb school. Who thought...
...world today is one big capitalist playpen, and there are some pretty good companies in most corners of the globe. Want to invest in the world's largest pharmaceutical company? It's Switzerland's Novartis, not U.S.-based Johnson & Johnson or Merck. Have a taste for the planet's biggest food company? It's Netherlands-based Unilever, not home-baked RJR Nabisco or Sara Lee. Biggest farm-equipment maker? It's Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, not Caterpillar or Deere. Metal goods? Try France's Pechiney, not Alcoa...