Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students interviewed this week said they are pleased with the system. "I feel safer from people who are walking by and trying to rip something off," Aaron Y. Mendel '97 said...
...some settlers are prepared to go much further: in the past, West Bankers have embraced violence, even against Israeli soldiers, as part of theirprotests. "We are reacting with violence," said Aaron Domb, spokesmanfor the Council of Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, "because thegovernment has acted with violence by forcing this agreement on the nation." Former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren asserted, "Arafat is responsible for thousands of murders. Therefore, everyone in Israel who meets him in the streets has the right to kill...
...Aaron will soon be soloing himself. First his younger brother (Cameron Boyd) is sent off to relatives so that the family can save money. Next his mother enters a tuberculosis sanatorium. Finally his father hits the road selling watches -- the only job he can get in the Depression. That leaves Aaron, who hides his survivor's wit under a deadpan demeanor, to fend for himself in the shabby hotel where the declassed Kurlanders have washed...
...encounter Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford), 12, reading a paper to his school class in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1933. It's a very persuasive fantasy in which he imagines Charles Lindbergh calling him for advice on what food to take on his transatlantic solo flight. The boy suggests that cheese sandwiches are always good...
Soderbergh's adaptation of A.E. Hotchner's novel-memoir is episodic, and that mutes the melodrama inherent in Aaron's encounters with crime, illness and loss. Aaron must improvise his response to events without fully understanding them, and that comes closer to the truth about boyhood than most movies do. It was a directorial mistake to bathe the images in a soft glow. But that visual error is not compounded psychologically. The film has a tough core, and in a time when movies about the troubles of little boys are a sentimental subgenre and dysfunction is being too easily overcome...