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...Leontes imprisons Hermione, ensures that the daughter she bears in prison is banished to Bohemia, and only realizes his error when it’s too late...
...play’s shift to Bohemia repositions its action in time as well as in setting. Fifteen years have elapsed since Leontes sent away his infant daughter. Raised by kind—if simple—shepherds, Perdita (Cristi Miles) falls in love with Florizel (James Ryen), the son of Polixenes and Prince of Bohemia. Florizel does not reveal his royal heritage to Perdita, who is likewise unaware of her royalty...
...most difficult job in sales to persuade a kid of the appeal of a cell phone, especially one with serious mega-pixels, built-in video recorder and a web browser with access to a "walled garden" of family-friendly games from the likes of Nickelodeon. (Platinum Sudoku: $5) My daughter's one frustration was that the embedded foreign language translator could come up with no Spanish equivalent of "cranberry," which would have been helpful for a school assignment...
...Ironically, Kajeet's success may well have little to do with actual phone calls. The device is really a next-generation multi-media networking platform in a youthful and slightly edgy package. Or in other words, an alluring toy. A few weeks into my daughter's testing phase, I spotted her roaming around the house delightedly barking into the handset: "Code Red Alert. Code Red Alert." Under closer scrutiny, it became clear the phone wasn't even switched on. When I asked what she was doing she breezily replied: "I'm just playing. None of my friends have cell phones...
...they begin. There is little sense of place or vivid evocation of experience, and Munro’s attempts to imaginatively create an inner life for her characters seem flat. There is mention of a brother’s friendship with a rich man’s ailing young daughter aboard the ship, and of a son’s bitter grief over his father’s death, but partly because there are so many characters—brothers, sisters, cousins, in-laws—none of these imagined glimpses into their lives go anywhere or feel very satisfying...