Word: girlness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spot a boy or girl whose forehead is emblazoned with a paste-on tattoo in the shape of a purple lightning bolt and have no idea what you are seeing...
...What happens in the first book, Harry discovers that he's a wizard, and he's going to a school called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. At the station he meets a boy named Ron, who's also going to Hogwarts. And on the train, they meet a girl named Hermione..." Given enough time, Anna will tell you the entire plot of a 309-page novel called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which she has read, she confides, "seven or eight times...
Since her characters grow a year older in each book, Rowling says that certain unavoidable changes are in store for them and the readers. A hint of what's ahead appears in The Prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry notices Cho Chang, the only girl on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. "She was shorter than Harry by about a head, and Harry couldn't help noticing, nervous as he was, that she was extremely pretty. She smiled at Harry as the teams faced each other behind their captains, and he felt a slight lurch in the region of his stomach that...
DIED. RUTH ROMAN, 74, actress who combined good-girl wholesomeness with bad-girl edge; in Laguna Beach, Calif. She starred in more than 30 films, inlcuding Champion, Strangers on a Train and Colt...
...real advocate of old-boy, new-girl networks," says Wilson, who oversees music business advertising. "I want a Harvard person working with me, and I'm straight up about...