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...magical, self-contained parallel universe that looks a lot like a British boarding school except that Harry takes classes in potions, poltergeists patrol the halls, and Harry gets to show his true mettle. "I know far more than the reader will ever need to know," says Rowling, an elfin-looking 33-year-old. "I know the names of all the Quidditch teams." Quidditch, for the uninitiated, is sort of like soccer, but it is played in the air on broomsticks, and some of the balls attack the players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wizard of Hogwarts | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Boston Women's Film Festival before opening around the country May 7, is a delicate, harrowing epic in miniature; it has an artist's attention to the harsh allure of physical and psychological landscapes. Xiu Xiu would be memorable if only for its stars: Lu Lu, now 17, an elfin charmer whom Chen found studying English in San Francisco, and the Tibetan actor Lopsang as a herdsman who befriends Xiu Xiu. But the movie is more than a star-is-born showcase. This story of a girl who rolls down the slope of degradation, and finally has no power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan of Art | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...filmmaker than as a healer of deep historical wounds (don't forget that he has already helped us come to terms with the Holocaust, slavery and the extinction of the dinosaurs). Expect him, if he wins, to offer some kind of generational benediction in a manner both elfin and rabbinical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Translation: I Won! I Won! I Won! | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...first wild monkey, a squirrel monkey, small and elfin-faced. One hears a monkey in order to see it: it rustles branches or drops a piece of fruit. One's senses grow keener after a while; the idea of coming to one's senses takes on new meaning. I pick up a scent that the others identify as that of a tapir, a large, smooth, big-nosed mammal the size of a small cow. An electric blue butterfly flutters by my ear. Mittermeier snags a vine snake, green and camouflaged in its habitat. Everywhere is a sign of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: RUSSELL MITTERMEIER: Into the Woods | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...list has enormous market appeal. The issue that features the rankings has become what the guide's founding editor, Mel Elfin, has described as the U.S. News equivalent of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's annual swimsuit issue: it is one of the best-selling issues of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: What Makes A Good College | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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