Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move--an Army brat or cook's son--typically either crawls into a shell or finds ways to cope with new classmates each school year. Hanks coped, adapted and later found a home in the impromptu family that is any company of actors. "To me it was the natural order of things, this willingness to go off and throw yourself into strange circumstances. I was never afraid to pack up and go off." And when he wasn't going off, he was looking up--at the stars. His obsession with the U.S. space program, which blossomed into Apollo...
...CHUCHO VALDES Bele Bele en La Habana (Blue Note) A native of Cuba, this fleet-fingered performer is one of the world's finest pianists. Mixing jazz with traditional Afro-Cuban musical forms such as son, danzon and mambo, he creates ferociously cerebral songs that break boundaries, cross oceans and are too spirited for any embargo to contain...
...CLOUDSPLITTER Was John Brown, the antislavery revolutionary who led the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., a visionary or a madman? Russell Banks frames this question in fictional form, a furious, sprawling drama narrated by Brown's real-life son Owen. The result is a historical novel that is not simply a period piece or a pedantic tract but an imaginative leap...
...son has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder for which he receives Ritalin. It is difficult to list the ways a lack of impulse control can affect a child and his family. Our son was one month away from his fifth birthday when we realized we needed help. He incinerated food in the microwave, turned off the hot-water heater and opened the water-release valve, forced several steak knives through a wooden fence and finally bloodied a pet. Does this sound like an unsupervised child? I am home full time with him, and vigilance was the key word. Even with...
Ritalin works for our son. It was the best thing that could happen to us and to him. He became a new child. He was able to focus, stay on task, didn't get as frustrated and angry and could enjoy going to school. I am so thankful for Ritalin. As long as my son needs it, I am going to see that he gets it. DANA WOOD Portland...