Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SURPRISING thing about Natty Gann is that despite its simplicity and predictability, the movie is neither dull nor unsatisfying. The movie moves fast, probably to retain the interest of young children. Jumping from a dog fight to a train ride with hobbos to an escape from railroad policemen, the film gives you little time to pop your bubblegum...
Late one Dec. 24, a boy finds a train stopped outside his house. A conductor beckons him aboard. It is the first of many astonishments in The Polar Express + by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95). Other surprises include club cars full of similarly dazed children in pajamas and nightgowns, woods full of wolves and, finally, the frozen sea of the polar ice cap--Santa Claus country. Van Allsburg has given the commonplace a legendary air, and the boy's return seems every bit as gilded as the elves, Santa's airborne sled and the homeward-bound express train, with...
Watson is finishing his Harvard career this semester (one semester late) because he took off the spring term two years ago to train for the Olympics. At the Olympic trials, he placed third in 10-meter platform competition--behind the two Americans who eventually ended up with the gold and silver medals--to gain a spot as first alternate...
Watson plans to use next semester to train with the U.S. National Team--he has been a member since 1981--in Austin, Texas, for February's DDR Championships in East Germany, and for the World Aquatic Championships which will be held in Madrid, Spain...
...Christmas paraphenalia and sliming his way around the Who-houses. Most everyone harbors enough Scrooge-like thoughts to make this most satisfying. But most of this section wound up on the editing room floor. No more can children or any one else see our hero guiding the Who-electric-train into...