"We're reasonable grownups," Layla says, "and it works for us".
These competent grownups launch their diabolos up into space – and then walk on their hands or juggle with kitchen knives – before catching them on their ropes as they come down.
Business travellers are grownups, and are always in places airports, coffee shops, hotels full of random unidentified wireless networks.
As I wrote last year:Business travellers are grownups, and are always in places airports, coffee shops, hotels full of random unidentified wireless networks.
Thankfully The Boy in the Dress is a heart-warming alternative to the more syrupy, cinnamon-scented children's Christmas programming - making it appealing to both kids and grownups alike.
For Soderbergh, Liberace's heroism isn't in his actual performance but in his success; he delivered childishness to grownups, and — here's the hard and heroic part — became rich and famous doing so.
He cannot think about children, on film, without approaching the fathomless fear of sundering and separation with which all childhoods are marked, though he is equally alive to the resilience that children draw upon, to the bewilderment of grownups, once the crack has opened up.
Supposedly plucked at random from a dictionary by a coterie of war-evading young writers and artists in Zurich in 1916, "dada" was a two-syllable nonsense poem and a craftily meaningless slogan, signalling a rejection of grownup seriousness at a time when grownups by the million were shooting one another to pieces on the Western Front for reasons that rang ever more hollow.
Still, she didn't quite fit, or want to fit, the role of beloved children's author; her real ambition was to write for grownups.
Each features grownups acting like babies, bogus (or at least reversible) reports of looming reconciliation, and the threat of an apocalyptic outcome — federal default, a football-less fall.
Lewis was a rambunctious but observant child, decoding the grownups around him as he later would his characters.
