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This thin, user-friendly book has developed into an unwelcome monument to the summer of 1993. It sits at my endtable sometimes; most days, it's buried in the clothesheap on the floor. The bookmark is stuck in page 187, and it's been that way for months...
Most days, the book is buried in my clothesheap on the floor. The bookmark is stuck in page 167, and it's been that way for months...
...heads back to Room 208 to wait for her third-grade students, who have formed two lines outside the red brick building. This particular morning the girls' line enters first. As they file past, one child, Heidi, stops and shyly hands Bowen a slender envelope. Inside is a bookmark. Its inscription: "To my teacher: thank you for taking the time to share what you have learned...
...class of 20 third- graders, including Katie. At 9:20 one winter morning, Katie was at her desk reading The Babysitters' Club by Ann M. Martin, when Mrs. Holmes said, "Give me five!" She employs this playground greeting as her way of getting the kids' attention. Katie placed a bookmark where she stopped reading, folded her hands squarely on her desk and focused her eyes on her teacher...
...camera loves Nastassia Kinski. Every feature of her young body comes to life before its lens. The wide, gray-green eyes send out satellite signals of precocity or perversity. The dewy skin holds, on the left cheek, a tiny scar, like a bookmark in a turbulent autobiography. The lips, extravagantly full, can pout or preen or tauten resolutely or open in an elfin smile. The long Botticelli neck carries the eye to a strange and strong body, with delicate breasts, expressive musculature and the strong haunches of a peasant girl or a centaur. Kinski is a true camera animal because...