Word: shadows
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...elderly are doing far, far more than just playing. The "shadow work" of millions of volunteers -- in schools, hospital wards, prisons and arts centers -- has helped fill the hole left by younger women, once full-time volunteers, who have entered the work force. Many retirees view such service as a duty as well as a pastime. Lois Eiseman, 67, a former kindergarten teacher, travels to schools and day-care centers to test children for hearing disabilities. Restaurant Owner "Daddy" Bruce Randolph, 88 this week, serves thousands of dinners to Denver's homeless and shut-ins every Thanksgiving. Wayne Matson...
...European children ever have childhoods? Not in the '40s and '50s anyway, to judge from a bunch of recent movies. Death's shadow dogged a boy's heels; responsibility came early, and guilt tagged along. Kids grew up faster, tougher, with fewer fantasies and more urgent everyday nightmares. In wartime or in uneasy peace, childhood was no romp in the meadows of innocence; the evidence is on the screen. Two top contenders for this week's Oscar nominations focus on English boys growing up during World War II. In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, a lad gets shanghaied...
Sweden's best medal hopes, however, are probably Svan and Torgny Mogren, 24, his childhood buddy. Mogren had been in Svan's shadow, but came on to take the 1987 World Cup. Svan has long since recovered from a lingering virus that made last year a disappointment. This season the two friends have seesawed back and forth on top of the World Cup standings. Last month Mogren slipped once again into first place, but Svan maintains with Viking assurance:, "I have never run faster than...
Somehow, with all the electronic attention, the presidential race has been odd, difficult to grasp, even obscurely depressing. Bush and Rather last week enacted a dispiriting shadow play that made one nostalgic for some other time when, one imagines, presidential candidates had more size, and the waters of intelligence ran clearer, and words had meaning...
...Harold Prince (Cabaret, Follies) have mounted some of the flashiest spectaculars of recent years, including their prior collaboration, Evita. Practically everyone, it seems, has seen a movie version of Phantom, although few have read Gaston Leroux's turgid 1910 thriller about the hideously misshapen genius who constitutes himself the shadow ruler of the Paris Opera House and, upon becoming infatuated with a chorine, maneuvers her career from afar. The beauty-and-the- beast theme and subterranean wonderland setting echo the myths of Persephone, Pygmalion and Faust and also contemporarily embrace Freudian metaphors of sexual awakening. The Broadway launch has been...