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...life and the people who lived it from the most ordinary of jumping-off points. For example, the Indian basket demonstrates new contact between English settlers and Algonkians in what is now Providence, R.I. and the subsequent blending of the cultures’ fabrics. Hannah Barnard’s cupboard and Betty Foot’s bed rug indicate the importance that was placed on maintaining gentility even on the new American frontier...

Author: By Frankie J. Petrosino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Homespun" Success | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

Rowling's first inspiration was to plop modern, realistically drawn kids into a magical, medieval setting. Her next was to make Harry a naive hero, plucked from ignominious obscurity--the spidery cupboard under his awful relatives' stairs--and challenged to greatness. The result, a witches' brew of Tolkien and Tom Brown's School Days, was so vividly written that it was, in effect, already its own movie. It gave readers the narrative equivalent of the best seat in the house and free popcorn to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harry Potter: Wizardry Without Magic | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...latest child-centered opus brings the first installment of Scottish author J.K. Rowlings’ multiple part book series to vivid and fantastic life. The series tells the story of Harry Potter, a young wizard who spends the first 11 years of his life trapped under a cupboard by his muggle, or non-wizard, relatives before discovering that he is actually a wizard, and has been invited to study witchcraft at Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With his trusted pals Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, he discovers a new world of potions, Quidditch games and Bernie...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do You Believe in Magic? | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

Students say they plan to carefully guard the electrical cupboard...

Author: By Nicholas F. Josefowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BSA Partygoers Left Dancing in the Dark | 9/25/2001 | See Source »

...will be co-sponsoring another dance this Saturday and students say they plan to carefully guard the electrical cupboard...

Author: By Nicholas F. Josefowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BSA Partygoers Left Dancing in the Dark | 9/25/2001 | See Source »

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