Word: six-year-old
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Engineering was never considered: Nonzee went straight into television commercials, working his way up the ranks. He stops for a moment, rubs his eyes, scratches his chest and considers his lot. "I've always felt very unloved," says Nonzee, who has a failed marriage and a six-year-old daughter he dotes on. "My films and my life are a search for some of that missing love." As a hot director, however, he is hardly lonely. His set is studded with young female extras fresh from Bangkok modeling schools, all hoping for the big break. One beauty demanded...
...elder in Kirinyaga, he is conscious of the legacy he will leave. "In some small way," he says, "we want to contribute to Kenya's future. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow." Sitting in the Ngata dining room with his arm around Philip, a beaming six-year-old who has just been accepted into the home, Kariuki says, "Any one of these kids could be a teacher, a doctor or the future President--if we just give them hope." It will be their eventual success that will give Kenya's business community some prospect for a reversal...
...separated mother in middle-class New Delhi, Shobha Batra struggled to make ends meet. She worked as a nurse, helped run the family's kindergarten and spent hours cleaning, cooking and looking after her six-year-old. She needed someone to help out, but worried that a man in the house could be dangerous and a woman might bring home boyfriends. Far better, and cheaper, she decided, to buy a child...
...Gien's dazzling performance only enhances the simple emotional power of the tale. What we see through the eyes of six-year-old Elizabeth, her black caretaker and the others who populate this story is that apartheid was not only fought in the frontline political struggle broadcast around the world, but also in the closely knit circles of families, in the intimacies of individual relationships and in the quiet but fierce struggles of personal conscience...
...TIME.com: Much of the play is seen through the eyes of a six-year-old child, Elizabeth. Why did you choose to use her voice...