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...little plot summary. James is an orphan boy in the care of two sadistic maiden aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Through some green magic, a garden peach grows to geospheric dimensions. James crawls inside through a pulpy canal, meets some eccentric insects (Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, Miss Spider, Glowworm, Earthworm) and floats across the sea on an adventure that grafts Jules Verne onto Lewis Carroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TAKING OUT THE BUGS | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...place that was as much marine boot camp as school. He hated it. Of Diana, Rees-Mogg said that "she knows herself to be a remarkable person, and remarkable people usually need to be admired. It is no good asking a star to accept the role of a glowworm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princess Diana and Prince Charles: Separate Lives | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...into it!" he told Violet Asquith. But if Churchill saw death as an obstacle to ambition, his follow-up remark to the Prime Minister's daughter suggested a way to meet the unavoidable. "We are all worms," he said morosely. "But I do believe that I am a glowworm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Zigzag Lightning in the Brain | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...former Scots Guardsman 16 days older than her son. As a boy, Winston made few friends at Harrow or Sandhurst, but his self-confidence remained unshaken. At 32, the young Under Secretary of the Colonial Office stated, "We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glowworm | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...glowworm rode straight into controversy. He covered the Cuban revolution in 1895 as a journalist, fought at the Khyber Pass, and joined the last great cavalry charge in British history with Kitchener in the Sudan. Captured by Boers in South Africa, Winston was confined to a prison camp. His escape was neoclassic Churchill. He used a route fellow officers had worked out, but went alone. He had read his Nelson carefully. The admiral advised that victory depended on being there a quarter of an hour before the other fellows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glowworm | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

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