Word: anastasias
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...coffee,” says children’s author Lois Lowry to the 260-plus-person Literature and Arts A-18: “Fairy Tales” class. Lowry, who lives in Cambridge and has written over 30 books including The Giver, Number the Stars and the Anastasia series, resembles a spunky, low maintenance grandmother in her red buttondown sweater. This comforting and casual statement fits with her unassuming thoughtfulness evident as she starts to speak about her novel, Number the Stars, which the class recently studied...
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When I was 10, I wrote in my diary a list of goals, mimicking my favorite fictional character Anastasia's habit of listing random things in notebooks. Goal number three was to "write a book by the time I turn 12." At the time, I felt like this was a fair goal. I'd just finished reading a novel about a 12-year-old girl who'd written a fiction book and become famous; I gave myself two full years to complete the task...
...Britney effect is helping fuel a resurgence of school dress codes across the country. In Chicago, where 80% of the public schools have uniforms, Assistant Principal Anastasia Halicki patrols the halls of Stephen F. Gale Elementary School to ensure that skirts don't rise higher than two finger widths above the knee. The majority of girls, of course, know better than to wear their most risque clothes to school. Tube tops are forbidden at Oliver McCracken Middle School in Skokie, Ill., but Sarah Roberts, 11, wears hip huggers and skimpy T shirts on the weekend. Even in the dead...
...Bluth has been making just-O.K. animated features for two decades; typically, he dabbles in tantalizing subjects (the immigrant experience in An American Tail, the historical romance in Anastasia) without freshening them. But Bluth's best film, The Land Before Time, was set in the distant past, where he was freed from his tendency for painterly realism. Here he and co-director Gary Goldman use 3-D computer technology, and some very talented designers, to dream up a world--a galaxy--of marvelous sights, spaceships, planets, vistas and critters. And when it shifts into action mode, the movie...