Word: spank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...places he had to leave were foster homes. He liked two of them because "they had a lot of bugs, and I like to catch bugs." Some of his foster parents were nice and some were mean: "They pinched me, or they would spank me." It is impossible for a visitor to tell what really went wrong, and who, if anyone, was "bad." But someone is listening carefully to Jason now. "It's good here because you get to talk to your social worker about stuff that's private," he explains. "You talk about things you miss, or things...
Writer Kathy McWorter and director Jon Avnet alternate these moral mud baths with warm soaks in sentimentality. Sometimes The War is so noble you want to spank it. But as it spins fascinatingly out of control, the film is nevertheless secured by the four splendid actors who play the Simmons family. Costner, a daring actor in his narrow range, lets his voice and heart break subtly on every line. And the two kids are fine -- full of sense, discretion and what we used to call gumption...
...years ago, a spatula spank was gettingthings under control, and now they're using theGED 4," Driscoll says, "You wonder what comesnext...
...snowsuit to 30 young women, many of whom had never had a snowsuit of their own. "I learned how to feed my children -- how to fix a healthy meal and not feed them hot dogs and beans all the time," says Holland. "I learned you don't have to spank them; you can just talk to them." A woman named Michelle Nielsen became her mentor. "I'd take her to the store or to a prenatal class," says Nielsen. "We talked a lot about God and church...
...camera very effectively to add comedic dimension to the movie. Mitch's final pitch in a baseball game is filmed in slow-motion at an unlikely angle, a funny parody of how B-movies often frame crucial moments. The next scene, of Mitch's hazing (a few guys spank him with wooden paddles) is also slow-motion, and bears clever similiarity to the bull-killing scene in "Apocalypse...