Word: ten-year-old
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Last week many parents joined teachers on the picket line outside P.S. 140. Complained one mother, Mary Akins: "My ten-year-old is a slow learner. With 40 kids in a class, I don't think she can improve...
...full-time Jimmy Breslin intimate. He's Harvard's link with chic, Bok's ear to the Congressional floor, and a possible advance man for Ted Kennedy in his 1976 presidential bid. Daly has been pre-occupied of late with trying to keep the Kennedy Library, a ten-year-old proposed project, in Cambridge. Whether he succeeds or not, he has obscured both John F. and Jackie Kennedy (quite a task) as the central figure in the library...
...diplomatic and economic quarantine of Cuba by the Organization of American States has been tough to sustain-and equally tough to get off the books. Last year, before a meeting of OAS foreign ministers in Quito, it seemed like a good bet that delegates of pro-Cuba countries had rounded up the two-thirds majority needed to vote out the ten-year-old embargo, which now throws only a very tattered curtain around Castro's island. Much to everyone's surprise, the anti-embargo forces fell two votes short, chiefly because the U.S. delegation took a studied attitude...
...have a lot of money and nothing to do. They don't have the energy to hold up their end of the family and help raise the kids." And, Hart adds, "child abuse is epidemic." Recently the town's "crisis line" got a call from a ten-year-old who said that he and his younger brother and sister had run out of food and were hungry. Asked where his parents were, the sobbing child said that they had both left for pipeline jobs more than a week before...
...actors in Michel's film are exquisitely beautiful, particularly his wife (Josse Nat) as his mother and his son (David Drach) as the young Michel. Its presentation is limited in perspective, focusing exclusively on what happens to one family, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old. Michel as director meticulously and lovingly reconstructs his childhood memories, suffusing them with retrospective pleasure despite their sinister content...