Word: six-year-old
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...movie whose dramatis personae include a lovable old coot (Richard Farnsworth), a wisdom-of-the-ages granny (Eva Le Gallienne), a six-year-old victim of cancer and a Benji-type mutt is pouring itself a tub of bathos. One actor falls in: Roberts Blossom, whose Old Testament gaze and sucked-in gums make the American Gothic farmer seem as jolly as a game-show host. But most of the performers bring craft and conviction to their roles. Shepard is especially fine. This gifted young playwright, whose works show an inside knowledge of America's prodi gal sons...
John Adames plays the accountant's six-year-old son, Phil, though he looks throughout as if he's auditioning for the Little League version of Fame. This little fellow has taken too many acting classes, and seen too many movies--he imitates everyone from James Coco to Jack Palance, Adames is the first victim of Cassavettes' improvisational approach; let off the leash, he begins to babble...
Thirty-three Harvard graduate students living in Conant Hall don't think so. Since last November they have been sponsoring six-year-old Wakidi Frisnoumoto through Foster Parents Plan, a Rhode Island-based agency...
Lhota, who is coordinating the project this year, writes Wakidi on behalf of the group every two months; more frequent letters would cause administrative problems, the agency says. Wakidi has written several times. The six-year-old dictates to an uncle who can write, and local workers translate correspondence...
Procter & Gamble insists that the case against its six-year-old product is far from proved. Says a company medical consultant: "Can you imagine a Government agency passing up the opportunity to scare the hell out of millions of women?" Even so, the Cincinnati-based firm ordered the product off the market, offering refunds to customers. That may not be enough. One TSS victim, Linda Imboden of Redding, Calif., who lost her hair and suffered crippling in her hands and toes, has already filed a $5 million suit against Procter & Gamble, claiming that it knew all along that Rely...