Word: girlness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catchers in St. Paul, I probably make as good a risotto as any of them. The secret, besides lavish administration of butter and cheese, is to rush the rice toward the finish line at high speed and then turn off the heat and coast across. My little girl thinks my risotto is more than good enough, but she is glad for everything we set before her. The chapter in the child manual on finicky eaters does not apply to her: she licks her chops the moment the bib is tied; she digs into her risotto with profound gusto, a spoon...
...image delved into anything deeper than a smitten heart or a sweet longing for home. Only late in life did Rockwell's work begin to turn from ingrained nostalgia to a grittier reality, most notably in The Problem We All Live With, a 1964 painting of a young black girl on her way to school escorted by federal Marshals. His commonfolk, humorous and brave and spiritual to the core, became icons to generations. Yet a lifetime's work--nearly 4,000 smartly rendered pictures--never brought Rockwell acclaim in the inner circles of art that embraced everything from Cubism...
...This year's girl does not have supernatural powers. This year's girl does not wield a sword or a stake, does not have a pinup's bod, does not even sport a radiant mane of natural curls. What Lindsay Weir has is a prodigious brain that she's slightly uncomfortable with, an olive-drab jacket weighing on her shoulders like chain mail and--something rare enough among prime-time adults, let alone teens--a genuine crisis of faith. Having witnessed, alone, the death of her grandmother--who told Lindsay, as she slipped away, that she saw "nothing" beyond--Lindsay...
...GIRL BANDS GO DIGITAL Alanis Morissette and Courtney Love may be yesterday's news, but that hasn't stopped gamemakers from developing the first titles to cash in on female rock sensations. Um Jammer Lammy for the Sony PlayStation ($35) lets players tap their game pad in time with the beat of progressively more complex sounds. (It's harder than you think.) For more of a story line, Lego Friends ($30, available mid-September) lets girls six and up form their own virtual band, compose songs and try to win a competition. Rock...
This time Brooks plays a screenwriter, Steven Phillips, who, as everyone keeps telling him, has lost his edge. What he needs is a muse, who turns out to be a bubble-headed material girl (well played by Sharon Stone) who requires gifts from Tiffany in exchange for dopily delphic advice. The conceit is mildly amusing, but what Brooks actually seems to have lost is his comic rhythm. There's something distant and depressed about the film, which never develops the momentum it needs to link its occasional bright satiric moments into a convincing whole...