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...screen, you are required to write characters the Graffiti way--an A without the horizontal line, and so on. It can be a daunting thing to learn, yet after watching my techno-challenged mom scribble happily on her new Handspring Visor, I felt certain it was the alphabet of the future...
Thankfully so. We can forgive the dreamy Sorvino for her wide array of childhood fancies—but if she had gotten past the first letter of the alphabet, who knows what other careers she may have entertained? The Oscar-winning, Mandarin-speaking Harvard grad has already made it quite apparent that she can do whatever she sets her mind to. And if she had chosen to set her mind on something else, would she have found the time to kick-start her career in 1995 with a breakout performance in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite? Luckily...
While her childhood daydreams may have stopped at the beginning of the alphabet, Mira’s meteoric rise has shown no signs of slowing down. Before bursting onto the Hollywood scene, her penchant for As got her all the way to Harvard, where she graduated magna cum laude in East Asian Studies. As the former Cabot House resident—she loved the Quad, by the way—lounges in a spacious conference room on the second floor of the luxurious Ritz Carlton Boston Common, she chats casually about her latest film, Triumph of Love, while reflecting...
...CHENEY FOR CHILDREN On May 21, Simon & Schuster will publish "America: A Patriotic Primer," an alphabet book for elementary school children by Lynne Cheney, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and wife of the Veep. Proceeds will be donated to charity...
Also intriguing is a book called “Alphabets” by Davidson. The book, small but defiantly shiny, consists of copper plates bound by four rings. Into each plate is carved a different alphabet; on the two visible pages, the Etruscan and Gothic alphabets are on display. Perhaps Davidson hopes to make a pregnant and theoretical statement about the transience and protean nature of alphabets, languages and the written medium in general. Either way, the book of copper plates is visually impressive...