Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Volume I of Norman Sherry's meticulously protracted biography takes the English novelist step by step, from his birth in 1904 to 1939. Readers of Greene's memoir A Sort of Life may experience a mild paramnesia as they again hear of the novelist's neurotic childhood, his crush on his psychoanalyst's wife, his dissolute years at Oxford, his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his beginnings as a journalist, and the physical and spiritual wanderings that led to the writing of his popular moral thrillers...
...satisfy a personal need, but Sherry's tribulations do not yield much about Greene's nature. For that, the biographer hits the conventional paper trail: books, journals, diaries, letters and periodicals. His impressive accumulation supports what readers of Greene's writings have already had reason to suspect: his morbid childhood fears ripened into the themes...
Three years later, the family moved to the United States at the invitation of relatives who had been stranded there because of the occupation. Throughout Tarazi's childhood, his parents never told him why they moved to the United States or even that he was Palestinian...
...Melissa Mathison, is one of the world's richest actors. But he could have told Connery he's no stranger to hard work: he supported himself in lean times as a carpenter to the stars. He's had lean dreams too. "George and Steven may be living out their childhood fantasies on film," he says, "but I didn't come from the same crate of oranges." Indeed not. "My first childhood ambition was to be the guy who carried the coal from our house to the coal chute in a wheelbarrow. I remember there was this big pile of coal...
...family huddles around the Taos, N. Mex., bedside of an aged aunt to hear her final addled reverie of childhood, the dying woman whisks off a grizzled wig to reveal blond locks, sits bolt upright and brays delightedly at having sneaked in one last prank. At the sight of this transformation, the daughter's attitude shifts from terror to wonder. Moments later, she and the dying woman are jumping on the bed as though it were a trampoline, mingling the old one's romantic memories with the child's geography game in exultant shouts of "Zanzibar! Zanzibar...