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Adam, a Manhattan nine-year-old who greets a reporter with a plastic fly on his outstretched tongue, remembers it differently. The parts he remembers, that is. (He's a little fuzzy on the audition: "That was a year and a half ago," he patiently explains.) Adam thought the work was "all fun," except for one scene where he had to wear leg braces, another where he rides a pony, and a few others where he was supposed to cry. Could Fred be someone Adam might know? "No, he's too smart for me." Could he exist somewhere? "It could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jodie Foster: A Screen Gem Turns Director | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...finishes breakfast. A school hood, taunting Alan and his friends in the rest room, demands to know if they are Jewish. "Not if you don't want us to be," one replies. Sentimentality gets the upper hand only in the show's "big" scenes: when Alan's nine-year-old brother (Matthew Siegel) meets his Dodger hero, Gil Hodges, or when Alan has to choose between a popular club and his dorky best friend. Grandma, the Robert Young of this series, is a bit too refined and understanding, and Alan is too much of an obvious winner. Leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way We (Maybe) Were | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

There are exceptions. The nine-year-old Metropolitan Assembly of God, located in a Do the Right Thing neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., goes all-out to recruit restless teenagers and has a 9,000-student Sunday school. While many of the fastest-growing congregations are young, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Ind., famous for its armada of Sunday-school buses, has been a Fundamentalist fixture for decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superchurches And How They Grew | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...honor at her residence. President Derek C. Bok hosted a student reception in his office. At a Dunster House dinner hosted by Masters Karel and Hetty Liem, Secretary Sullivan was joined at the head table by our second special guest of the evening, Lucas McLaurin, the nine-year-old Easter Seal Child of the Year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cleaning Out The Files | 2/2/1991 | See Source »

Leaders of the nine-year-old environmental group attributed the expansion of their recycling efforts to growing interest in the environment. Brain R. Trelstad '91, co-chair of EAC, said yesterday that the organization's membership has tripled in the last year...

Author: By Katherine C. Mayer, | Title: New Recycling Effort Planned | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

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