Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pastor was barred from meeting relatives, and his telephone was shut off. In a surreal form of harassment, authorities occasionally turned on the phone to deliver threats to Tokes, then billed him for the calls at long-distance rates. To protect his four-year-old son, Tokes sent the boy to live with relatives...
...Last Emperor (1987). And, arguably, the last movie epic, for its hero is the prisoner of world events, not the shaper. With sumptuous visual intelligence, director Bernardo Bertolucci created a poignant tale about the last Emperor of China -- the poorest little rich boy in the world...
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow (1989). A boy growing up in the Bronx during the Depression is effectively adopted by Dutch Schultz, a notorious gangster. The hero's vision of criminal life, at once glamorous and corrupting, amounts to a privileged education. This story of a young man's coming of age already seems a part of the American grain...
...early as 1947, Kennan suggested that Soviet power "bears within it the seeds of its own decay" and that the U.S.S.R. might turn out to be "one of the weakest and most pitiable of national societies." But unlike the little boy in the fable, Kennan was largely ignored by the crowd when he dared to say out loud that perhaps the emperor in the Kremlin was not quite so resplendent in his suit of armor. Now along comes Gorbachev to announce his nakedness to the world, and Yakovlev to confide that he too feels a chill...