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...five, and while one child stayed with his mother, Hanks and two others went with his father, who married a woman with five children of her own. Other divorces followed for both parents, and by the time he was ten, says Hanks wryly, "I had three mothers, five grammar schools and ten houses." His own first marriage, which produced two children, also ended in divorce, and only last April, Hanks married his second wife, Actress Rita Wilson, whom he had met while filming Volunteers...
CALVINO tackles questions that have puzzled the driest and most difficult literary critics of the century, but he does not share their obsession for inventing or redefining terms. He does not bully the reader with tortuous grammar, or leave gaps and ambiguities in his logic as examples of the defects in language itself; his sentences are clear and simple. "There is a lightening of language," Calvino posits, "whereby meaning is conveyed through a verbal texture that seems weightless, until the meaning itself takes on the same rarefied consistency...
...remember my greatest day as a whiffle ball hitter-pitcher. It was a day when Jim and I went down to challenge two other guys from my grammar school, Matt and Kevin. Matt and Kevin lived far away, speaking in relative Bronx terms. Their houses were at least 10 blocks away. It was like the Yankees traveling to Tiger Stadium in Detroit...
During the school year, Harvard students travel to three Cambridge public schools twice a week and work with school children on dance-related games and specific dance steps. While working in separate classes at the Tobin, Longfellow and Graham and Parks grammar schools, the undergraduates wear a number of different hats including those of dance teachers and of Big Brothers and Big Sisters...
...drugged out misadventures of a young man named Jamie as he wanders through the downtown Manhattan club scene at its early-'80s height. His book was written entirely in the second person and mostly in the present tense. But there are no equivalents to these devices in the grammar of film. As a result, his screenplay lacks the bite of his original fiction...