Word: ten-year-old
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Late last month TIME Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt set out for Lebanon in order to find several children described in a story he had written six months before, "Children of War" (Jan. 11, 1982). The children included a ten-year-old girl named Lara, whose parents were killed by the explosion of a car bomb in Beirut last September; a 15-year-old boy, Ahmed, a leader in a P.L.O. youth organization; a baby called Palestine who was born when her mother's stomach was slit open in a bombing raid of Beirut in the summer...
...know when you sneeze it comes out of your nose at 160 miles per hour?" he inquires of a girl he's trying to impress), a headmaster who encourages a student's underground traffic in exotic pastry because he has an unmanageable sweet tooth, a ten-year-old sister, precociously wise in the ways of the world, who gives Gregory such good advice as he gets on how to conduct his life. There is even a penguin - or rather, some one dressed up in a penguin suit - who in explicably wanders the school's corridor, collecting misdirections...
Spielberg's heroes, whom he sees as extraordinary, are children. At the emotional center of each new film is a trio of siblings: a teenager, a nine-or ten-year-old boy, a fair-haired preschool girl. To the awful pull of the forlorn or malevolent spirits residing inside the Poltergeist house, each child is differently attuned. The teen-age girl is too involved with growing up to take much notice; the boy, Robbie (Oliver Robins), can be reached only on the frequency of fear; but the five-year-old, Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), is unaware...
After announcing a competition in Pionerskaya Pravda, the Soviet equivalent of the Scout newspaper, Govorukhin received up to 400 letters a day. From a pool of several thousand, he chose an unknown ten-year-old for the part of Gekel-berry (the Russian pronunciation of Huckleberry) and a professional child actor to play the wily Tom Sawyer...
...piece on folk recipes-a pint of warm beer stirred with a hot poker will cure backache, a slab of raw beef will rub away a wart-the reporter edges deliciously close to magic herself. Even the inventory of the purple velvet handbag of Mme. Houdin, ten-year-old Sylvia's French tutor, becomes a litany of talismans to ward off disaster: smelling salts, two thimbles, a photograph of M. Houdin, the number of madame's life-insurance policy, and "a rather neglected rosary...