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Menino said he hoped Boston, the city that invented the term "busing" 25 years ago, could move beyond the sometimes-violent racial polarization that marked the city following the court order of federal judge Arthur Garrity to end school segregation...
...which they're based, but in this case anyone able to track down the novel from which the movie has been rather faithfully adapted by Kubrick and co-writer Frederic Raphael would have been more in the know. Titled Traumnovelle (Dream Story), it was first published in 1926 by Arthur Schnitzler, a Viennese playwright, physician and friend of Freud's, and has been available in paperback in the U.S. since 1995. Like a lot of the novels on which good movies are based, it is an entertaining, erotically charged fiction of the second rank, in need of the vivifying physicalization...
...necessarily in full control of what they watch. We supplement a small library of store-bought videos (including a few never-before-seen titles to ensure maximum attention) with movies and programs recorded from TV. This year, prior to departure, we taped Abby's morning tube routine (Barney, Arthur, Blue's Clues, etc.) to get her off on the right traveling foot each morning. Ditto for the elder kids' video faves, which tend to be less enlightening fare (though Flubber has much to teach us about physics...
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR: STORIES OF VALUES AND VIRTUES By Arthur Dobrin (Scholastic) Two zebras from rival herds overcome prejudice by falling in love. A tiny gerbil helps a couple of ostriches harvest a giant beet. Strength of character, rather than muscle, enables the heroes of this cozy collection of children's stories to perform amazing feats of kindness, understanding and cooperation. The text, written by a clergyman, refrains from preaching, and the illustrations by Jacqueline Rogers are sweet but not saccharine. Each of the 13 moral tales ends with a question, providing a natural segue to discussion. The book...
Much has been made of Marilyn's desperate personal history, the litany of abusive foster homes and the predatory Hollywood scum that accompanied her wriggle to stardom. Her heavily flashbulbed marriages included bouts with baseball great Joe DiMaggio and literary champ Arthur Miller, and her off-duty trysts involved Sinatra and the rumor of multiple Kennedys. The unauthorized tell-alls burst with miscarriages, abortions, rest cures and frenzied press conferences announcing her desire to be left alone. Her death has been variously attributed to an accidental overdose, political necessity and a Mob hit. Her yummily lurid bio has provided fodder...