But when Spielberg does the story realistically, with scenes of butchery and mud, it seems trivial, even a little daft: the war stops, the armies and the trenches and the hospitals are stilled, so that the boy and the animal can find each other.
Our team has good range in the outfield, can handle the infield well, and boy, can they hit.
If the splintered Beach Boy factions can't come to an agreement about their future, the September 28 concert at Wembley Stadium may be the last we see of this particular lineup.
The movie, about an outcast boy who can communicate with the dead, from Comcast's Focus Features, includes the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick and Casey Affleck.
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To shield the boy as best he can, he convinces him that the whole thing is an elaborate game with an undisclosed final prize.
When Danny rises from his game, a rocket with the lettering Apollo 11 on it can be seen on the boy's jumper and he walks slowly towards room 237.
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To the list of honors and acknowledgements we can now add Bill The Boy Wonder, a labor of love written by a fan, for fans.
But what I think is that, you know, if you're going to, you know, pass a policy saying that gay boys can join the Boy Scouts, then why not, you know, actually go forward and, you know, why do you have to, you know, half throttle something when you can actually make a big change and send a message to the rest of America?
But on the weekends on my bike, I can be a bad boy, leave the moneymaking system and be free at 90 kilometers an hour.
Under different circumstances, Arthur McKechnie would have been one of those people you read about in the newspaper: the schizoid boy who jumps out of a window thinking he can fly, the mad explorer who crosses the Arctic with nothing but a rucksack and a pair of crampons.
Girls can participate in the Boy Scouts through its subsidiary group, Exploring, and a Girl Scout troop in Colorado allowed a 7-year-old transgender child into its ranks last year, although some later protested with cookie boycotts.
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Reno also said she hopes the "passion" surrounding the custody case can be put aside, allowing the fate of the young boy to be resolved quickly in accordance with federal law.
For example, when I lived in Jakarta as a young boy, I can remember the buildings being no more than a few stories tall.
Then the rheumatologist looked at our boy, scratched his chin, thought about lawyers and kicked the can down the road.
In the absence of a helpful shoeshine boy, magazines can play a small part in this overshooting.
The superintendent of the Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Dennis Karnes, can still remember sitting on a well-pipe as a boy and being launched into the duckpond as soon as the farmer opened the valve and natural pressure spewed several thousand gallons a minute of ground water against his legs.
The boy suggests that I need some vitamins, which he can give me at a discount.
Rounding up the cast is Masha's boy-toy Spike (a splendidly buoyant Billy Magnussen), a housekeeper convinced she can see the future (a very game Shalita Grant) and an ethereal neighbor (the fairy-ish Genevieve Angelson).
By contrast, Mr Madelin, a Renault factory worker's boy, can claim to be a man of the people.
Sure, you can take a break to take the kid to Boy Scouts or dance lessons, but the work is waiting to be done late at night or early in the morning.
But in contemporary society, we have trouble talking about the obvious: The transition from boy to man is a risky endeavor, and there can be a lot of collateral damage.
One Beijing mom out shopping with her boy sums up the spirit of the times: "You can't refuse to buy things for your child when you only have one, " she says, as her kid clamors for a present.
Today you can visit the former radio station where, as a little boy, Brown delighted crowds with his dance moves.
These features can already be seen in the skeleton of the "Turkana boy" from Kenya, who lived about two million years ago.
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The boy was not strong enough to open the refrigerator and was unable to open a can of soup.
And if you look closely, you can see a 16-year old boy, looking right at the camera, right into your eyes.
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One child, a boy with neatly parted hair, looks carefully around the room to make sure that nobody can see him.
Of the many cases the child-protection people have been struggling with, this one constitutes their most flagrant failure, for they can't find a homeless shelter in all of Paris that will accept the boy together with his helpless mother.
We can ensure every man and woman, every girl and boy has an opportunity on the playing field of life.
But right, if you could get a car that could get 40 to 45 miles to the gallon and go as fast as my Subaru, which can do zero to 60 in under seven seconds, and feel like a lot of fun to drive, boy, would you have something, and that's clearly something the industry is hoping they can get.
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