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Reviewers of the first edition of Baby and Child Care praised its don't rock the boat (but do rock the cradle) tone.
My hunch is that Curtis Hanson, once a craftily offbeat writer-director who found the beat in a big way and made those thumpingly predictable blockbusters The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and The River Wild (1994), consciously set out to liberate himself from Hollywood hackery.
The president's "cradle to grave" proposals (Pat Buchanan, The McLaughlin Group ) were likely to paralyze the Republicans, because nobody wants to go on record as being against child care (Paul Gigot, NewsHour ). Unless the Republicans slip out of the sleeper hold, Clinton's two initiatives will serve as "wedge issues" to separate the two parties in the minds of voters for the 1998 election (Tony Blankley, Late Edition ).
Hundreds--and quite possibly thousands--of dogs, cats, and other domestic pets are killed by poisoning each year in this cradle of European civilization, this sun-soaked land of vines and olives and cypresses.
We're taking out the cradle, he told her, but we're leaving in the playpen.