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Frasi che contengono la parola childhood
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Henry James the private universe, Henry James the religious aspect, The portrait of a lady, The plays of Henry James, The dark backward a footnote, Two friends, From feathers to iron; Fielding and Sterne, servants of the novel, Romance in Pimlico, The young Dickens, Hans Anderson; Francois Mauriac, Bernanos, The beginner, The burden of childhood, Man made anrgy, G.K. Chesterton, Walter de la Mare's short stories, The Saratoga trunk, Arabia Deserta, The poker-face, Ford Madox Ford, Frederick Rolfe Edwardian inferno, Frederick Rolfe from the devil's side, Frederick Rolfe a spoiled priest, Remembering Mr. Jones, The domestic background, The public life, Goats and incense, Some notes on Somerset Maughan, The town of Malgudi, Rider Haggard's secret, Journey into success, Isis idol, The last Buchan, Edgar Wallace, Beatrix Potter, Harkaway's Oxford
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Miss Shirley Temple's case, though, has peculiar interest: infancy is her disguise, her appeal is more secret and more adult. Already two years ago she was a fancy little piece (real childhood, I think, went out with 'The Littlest Rebel'). In
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she wore trousers with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich: her neat and well-developed rump twisted in the tap-dance: her eyes had a sidelong searching coquetry. Now in 'Wee Willie Winkie', wearing short kilts, she is a complete totsy. Watch her swaggering stride across the Indian barrack-square: hear the gasp of excited expectation from her antique audience when the sergeant's palm is raised: watch the way she measures a man with agile studio eyes, with dimpled depravity. Adult emotions of love and grief glissade across the mask of childhood, a childhood skin-deep. It is clever, but it cannot last. Her admirers -- middle-aged men and clergymen -- respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire.
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He Went From Watergate to 'Heartburn', from Iinvestigative Superstar to celebrity dinner guest. Now Bernstein's back with an evocative book on his embattled childhood, but he's still Carl after all these years
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