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When Kennedy was shepherding the labor-reform act of 1959 through the Senate, he would brief me outside the chamber, lounging on that sore tailbone of his, making marvelously irreverent cracks about recalcitrant Senate colleagues and the pretty secretaries who walked by. During the 1960 campaign, I watched him up close: at Wisconsin factory gates at 5 a.m., in the New Hampshire snow, tramping through the hamlets of West Virginia. His days ran 20 hours. I felt more debilitated than he looked. True, J.F.K. didn't indulge in displays of physical prowess (no push-ups or arm wrestling). He just...
...sorcerers, knights and ladies, magic and unicorns. In 2001 the fantasy double bill of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings ranked first and second at the box office, and it's happening all over again this year. In its first weekend alone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets cleared $88 million. Think Star Trek: Nemesis is going to come close to that? Harry hasn't done badly at the bookstore either, having moved a total of 77 million copies in the U.S. so far, while Tolkien's works sold 11 million copies...
...past few years the podium for public comment in the council’s Sullivan Chamber has literally been...
With its sinister plot and dark magic undertones, Chamber is frequently a much darker concoction than the frothy, lighter-than-air stuff that was its predecessor. Murderous voices emanate from walls, legions of spiders scuttle through broken window panes and epithets scrawled in blood appear on hallway walls, foretelling imminent doom to students. This evil takes a more palpable form in the guise of Lucius Malfoy (Jason Isaacs), Draco’s father, a pale, embodiment of evil who drips with malevolence. He is but one example of the pitch-perfect casting and superbly restrained performances delivered by the supporting...
...read the series twice, and seen the first movie twice. When we were in London, Julia and I took a picture at platform nine of King’s Cross Station, where Harry departs for at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And I definitely plan to see the Chamber of Secrets sometime in the next few weeks, though I won’t be lining up tomorrow when the movie comes out. I’ll save that level of obsession that for the fifth book, which by the way is driving me crazy with anticipation...