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...uncommon for an audience member to be baffled for most of a Kieslowski film. It is probably impossible to see this film without hearing someone exclaim...
Hollygrove is filled with kids like Jason. "It's not uncommon to see a seven-year-old who has come in with four failures," says assistant director Bob Morgan. In Hollygrove's seven houses, occupying most of a block in a faded neighborhood of Los Angeles, 54 children are taking a rest from what have thus far been taxing lives. Each house has three "child-care counselors"; there are six full-time social workers, a 24-hour clinic and a visiting psychiatrist. Behavior modification is mild: the kids receive ratings on a point system that is linked to privileges...
...this occurs in any case. David Tribble, head of the Bethesda Home for Boys outside Savannah, Georgia, insists, "We're not an orphanage. That's not what we do." Yet at least one child lived at Bethesda for 14 years, and stays of four or five years are not uncommon there and at similar institutions around the country. The trend's most adventurous examples are, coincidentally or not, in Illinois. Hephzibah Children's Association, named after a biblical benefactor, operates a small facility funded by the mostly well-to-do citizens of Oak Park; it accommodates children ages...
...late-night exodus is not uncommon at Cabot or at Lamont Library, which usually closes...
...Kate trained in economics at a time when that was an uncommon career for young women," Green said. "She retained the economist's analytic mindset...