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...McKenna’s voice has the warble of a country singer, but she says she’s never been particularly admiring of country music. Growing up, she always thought she had an “ugly voice” and never tried to hone it. As an adult, McKenna saw a vocal coach because she felt she was singing wrong, as her talking voice was different from her singing one. The coach told McKenna that, “I was talking wrong,” she says with a laugh...
...really almost a must. It may have started out with people telecommuting, but at least in the Atlanta area, with all the traffic, a lot of people are aiming to miss the peak-traffic times." The newest trend, for people who can afford it, is for each adult to have his or her own home office. Ahron and Sheera Solomont of Brookline, Mass., are sales reps for the same company, yet they have separate home offices. Their computers are networked so they can share files. Ah, modern romance...
Your story on novelists who are writing fiction for older kids and teens [Books, Sept. 23] quoted author Michael Chabon as saying that "you have to sell adult readers on fantasy. Kids just accept it." If Chabon is right, then explain to me why I, a middle-aged adult, have read the Harry Potter books five times each! MARIANNE L. ADAMS Diamond Bar, Calif...
...Freud called the pleasure principle. He has to accept the principle of reality that includes death and a sense of duty." But it's also the story of every man and woman, says Wunderlich, "Of growing up from a self-absorbed child wanting every desire fulfilled immediately into an adult who learns how to take care of himself and learns he has deep feelings for others." Such eternal moral complexities have regularly lured artists and playwrights to revise and adapt Pinocchio, and a roster of cinema greats and not-so-greats have risen to the challenge, though, to Italian eyes...
...Freud called the pleasure principle. He has to accept the principle of reality that includes death and a sense of duty." But it's also the story of every man and woman, says Wunderlich, "Of growing up from a self-absorbed child wanting every desire fulfilled immediately into an adult who learns how to take care of himself and learns he has deep feelings for others." Such eternal moral complexities have regularly lured artists and playwrights to revise and adapt Pinocchio, and a roster of cinema greats and not-so-greats have risen to the challenge, though, to Italian eyes...