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...Walker, a sophomore, will dive from the 10-meter platform. He is making his second trip to nationals. He qualified by winning Zones two weeks ago in Buffalo...
Walker qualified by winning a tournament two weeks ago in Buffalo...
...follow the life of Tasha, a street-smart, scholastically bright, incredibly strong 15-year-old who narrates her own story with a colorful, spirited voice that refuses to falter or halt regardless of all that she faces: the ever-increasing violence and crime in her inner-city Buffalo neighborhood, the blatant drug-dealing of her next-door neighbor, the fact that her child, Imani, is both daughter and granddaughter of single mothers...
...with its stereotypical portrayal of Indians. But the book has been updated by Peter Stone (Titanic) in ways that pass p.c. muster without losing all the fun. A song has been dropped (I'm an Indian Too); an interracial love story has been added; and the Native Americans in Buffalo Bill's show are now quite obviously playing along with the gag. ("How," says Chief Sitting Bull, by way of greeting, "...is business?") In a musical that proclaims, "There's no people like show people...
...start she lays on the backwoods accent so thick you have to laugh, yet when she pines and pouts for Frank, she gives the character a funny, foot-stamping girlishness. There are some miscalculations. The device of framing the story as a show within a show--introduced by Buffalo Bill--gains nothing, and opening with the big number There's No Business Like Show Business is a needless appetizer. It's not as if Berlin's matchless songs--Doin' What Comes Natur'lly, Lost in His Arms, on and on--don't start pouring forth soon enough. Or that Peters...