Word: watch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With that in mind, Ludtke set for herself a remarkably sensitive task: to look at the world through the eyes of youngsters. Her idea was to find a few fairly typical children and live with them 24 hours a day -- go to school with them, watch television with them, eat and sleep in their homes. The first challenge was to find a selection of interesting children from various income, ethnic and geographical groups. Initial guidance in that quest came from Dr. Robert Coles, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his study Children of Crisis, and from Marian Wright Edelman...
...late afternoon many head for the riverbank to watch the sunset and the men building fishing boats, still the town's main industry. It is peaceful by the Mekong. The water provides relief from the scorching heat of the day. Electric power is available only between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., when a few lights come on and residents gather to watch a video in a public hall. Then a curfew clamps down, and like a jungle mist, stillness descends again...
Childhood has not been an easy path for Josh. He will never forget the night nearly nine years ago when his parents told him they were divorcing. "My sister Dana and I really liked watching the TV show Mork and Mindy, so my parents decided to tell us right before the show so we could watch it afterward," he says. "I don't think we ever got around to watching it. I just remember crying...
Larry and Joy Nelson's Fundamentalist Christian faith imposes strict rules on their children. What they watch on television is strictly monitored: no soap operas, no shows with a hint of sex. The children will not be allowed to date until 16, even though many girls in Nancy's seventh grade already wear boys' rings...
...need to take an Eastern shuttle back to New York. I have to get back on a Lexington Avenue IRT headed downtown and get off at the 161st St. stop. I have to go back to the box seats behind first base, watch Mattingly turn over a double play and then watch him hit the upper deck in the bottom of the ninth...