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Told mostly from the boy's point of view, Careful is a remarkably a curate and insightful portrait of a child torn between manipulative adults Although too young to understand the full implications of their selfishness and occasional perversity. "PS" so named by his bohemian mother "as a postscript to my ridiculous life" is nevertheless aware of far more than they think...
Nicholas Gledhill as PS gives one of the finest performances by a child actor images and not one in the mold of the Spielberg cute American kid. Reminiscent of Alexander in Bergman's Funny and Alexander. Gledhill's PS is hardly a postscript. He not only captures the hearts of all the adults but is the most complete character in the story, his enormous gray blue eyes take in everything with a quiet appraisal and his innocently infantile comments reveal wisdom beyond his years...
...fact, Reagan has written half a dozen letters on his azure linen paper and sent them to Moscow. They all had a personal touch. Sometimes Reagan added a postscript, not the usual form in diplomatic messages. Other times he made certain to foreshadow events, like the fact that he would announce an idea for a chemical-warfare treaty and send Vice President George Bush to Geneva to present it. So far, Reagan is still waiting for a warm, even a human, reply...
...displays Marie-Jo's incestuous feelings toward him. He danced with her to the strains of the Tennessee Waltz wherever he and his entourage happened to alight. He wrote her passionate letters before she was twelve: "Good night, good night, my tender and delicious love," adding an odd postscript: "Please share with your wonderful mother every thing I have said to you here, which is for her too. I know you are not jealous of her." Marie-Jo wore a wedding band her father had bought her when she was eight; she was dutifully informed when Simenon began sleeping...
That expensive steel-and-sheet-metal postscript, the assembly building, shelters the newly assembled spacecraft until it is ready for loading. The job begins in a hulking concrete structure called the Payload Preparation Center, a stationary, 147-ft-high building. There, in a relatively particle-free chamber, the spy satellites and other exotic space gear to be carried aloft will be given final checks in sealed chambers. Explains Engineer O'Gorman: "If we do the job right you should be able to take a transistor radio in there and not pick up a single outside signal." This feature...