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...movie adaptations go, in my Father's Den wears its literary heart on its sleeve. Based on Maurice Gee's 1972 novel of the same name, the film begins with the poetic voice-over of a teenage girl, later seen lying, as if in a coffin, along a railway track: "One day in a town at the end of the world, the tide went out and never returned." But as we get to know the soon-to-disappear Celia (Emily Barclay), whose relationship with a returned war photographer (Matthew Macfadyen) the movie charts, the film's biggest surprise...
...gifted education for the Garden Grove Unified School District, south of Los Angeles, says her school system discourages grade skipping and instead approaches the challenge of exceptional children with this question: "How is it [that] we can meet the needs of gifted kids in a regular classroom without saying, 'Gee, you're 5, but you can read at a seventh-grade level, [so] let's put you up to at least sixth grade'? It doesn't make sense at a social or emotional level," says Pe?...
...spot while the 'house' sweeps down past her - and when she reaches the attic, one screen shows its cluttered interior, while two others depict a vista of roofs and chimneys outside. It's frenetic, it's dizzying, it's the first show ever to give me motion sickness. Gee-whiz technology has its place in the theater, but here it often distracts from a serious tale of three wronged women. Apart from the titular woman in white, who is justly terrified of dastardly Sir Percival Glyde, there are the plucky Marian and her sister Laura, who are abused...
...unfiltered information? Would you surround yourself with hacks? Are you scared of smart people? I've seen the effect of the Oval Office on people. People are prepared to come in and speak their minds, and then they get in there, and the place overwhelms them, and they say, 'Gee, Mr. President, you're looking good.' I need people who can walk in and say, 'Hey, you're not looking so great today...
...year-old son was captivated by your article. Thank you for enlightening my child. Now when I nag him for the umpteenth time to take out the garbage, I can see him replying, "Gee, Mom, I just don't have the motivation; it must be my immature nucleus accumbens." Sandy Bartell Bellevue...