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… room, then stand at the window and watch for Gustie Lauter, coming up the street on his way to the high school. She saw … of herself. And what if she did and he said, “No.” She’d die. And there was another she’d do it with. Rodney Bigelow, … face and soft mouth. Her pale brown hair was cut in little points around her face. A gorilla! Moira felt there was a …
The Rock Pile In the Swamp
… road to autonomy . . . what the 20th-century mind has come to label identity . It’s this search for identity that … come with the complicity of enmeshment: the creation of a false self, a self that is “passing” as a dutiful son or … voice, his commanding authority suggesting unquestioned obedience. After the third phase—the charge given and then …
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Disney’s Snow White at 75
… projected picture. It is the collective energy of a live audience. But it paled in comparison to the … Reade, this is the audience who mostly filled the theater’s 268 seats. When it came to children under three feet tall, … onscreen presence with respect to the character’s age. He points out that, at the start of the Grimm story, Snow White …
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The Last Trapshoot
… around joking about how well they planned to shoot clay birdies out of the sky. The man who shot most of the ten clay … slicked-back brown hair, who always had an eye for the ladies, grinned from ear to ear, and struck a match. All the … house on Lake Huron.” “Then why don’t they stay there. Why come back here?” Gertie asked. “Well, you know, he comes to …
Vermeer: Girl Interrupted At Her Music
Vermeer: Girl Interrupted At Her Music When her mother entered the room, he did not look up. The young girl’s pale skin turned white as the shawl she wore. He was pointing to a figuration of counterpoint, or so he said. But there was something in the room …
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… of their stories and gone to sleep; gone into a fatal coma presaging death itself. And here just a short time ago … puppy dogs’ tails out of which you are compounded, and I also know only too well the emotion which informs you! … me that story about the “feller” they thought “was gonna die,” and I’m the only author in all the world to whom he …
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