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...some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some surprises in the story--qualities that animated Lone Star, which so richly filled this slot last summer--would constitute that much of a sellout. Nunez's film neither floats like a butterfly nor stings like a bee. It just drones...
QUEEN OF THE BEE...
...euonym for REBECCA SEALFON, 13, of Brooklyn, N.Y. If you said "spelling master," you'd be right, and if you said "highly nervous and eccentric spelling master," you'd be even righter. Sealfon correctly spelled euonym (meaning: an appropriate name) to win the 1997 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee last week. The home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate. Her final nine-round spelldown with Prem Murthy Trivedi, 11, of Howell, N.J., ended after he put an extra l in the word cortile (that would...
...Weil's story of the bee-sting cure of an arthritic knee reminded me of my grandmother, who used bee-sting therapy to treat her arthritis. Grandmother was born in 1872 on an Indian reservation in Minnesota, and most likely it was there in her early years that she learned some natural cures that have benefited our family ever since. PATRICIA EARL Los Angeles...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: What's in a nym? Plenty. Rebecca Sealfon, 13, correctly spelled "euonym" and claimed the trophy at the 70th National Spelling Bee in the nation's capital. The home-schooled Brooklynite takes home $5,000 in cash, a laptop computer, an encyclopedia and other gifts, plus a huge trophy and her requisite 15 minutes, which include a CNN interview Friday morning. Immediately upon hearing the word, which means a good name or appropriate name for a person, place, or thing, Rebecca knew she had it. Arms raised, she shrieked out each letter with arms raised, finally blurting...