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...copy of the U.S. Constitution. (He told me to keep them together, and no, he isn’t a Republican.) I don’t know how things work in the Bush family, but I’m pretty sure W. got the bible; I only wish Grandpa Prescott had remembered the Constitution...
Nothing like a diary to give you a glimpse of somebody's inner life. In this diverting follow-up to 2003's Diary of a Worm, also by Cronin and Bliss, Spider confesses his greatest fears--Daddy Longlegs, vacuum cleaners and people with big feet--and shares his grandpa's secret of longevity: Never fall asleep in a shoe. He talks about his unlikely friendship with Fly, whose forebears used to be the enemies of spiders. "Things are different now," says Spider, although Fly sometimes accidentally gets stuck in his web, to the horror of Fly's mother. Worm...
...turkey. One year the old man botched it badly, and the bird fell on the floor. Everyone was humiliated and wanted to cancel the next year's dinner. "Why can't we carve in the kitchen," a 12-year-old piped up, "and put the platter in front of Grandpa to serve?" This was a pivotal moment for the family. Families resist change, but they can and must learn to find new ways of being together, especially at holiday times. These gatherings are the heart of family life...
...shows absolutely no remorse for his lifestyle. In one scene he essentially tells his grandfather—the same man who selflessly took him in after his mother died—to F-off when he questions his choices: “I’m a gangsta, grandpa, and I’m proud of it!” This refrain—“I’m a gangsta!”—crops up throughout the movie and is always accompanied by 50’s signature laugh, as if he himself realizes...
...Harvard-only fellowship with a Harvard-only name, the Gardner sends one graduated senior abroad for a year of travels “in an unfamiliar culture with an unfamiliar language.” So don’t try to go to Germany if you have a German grandpa. And don’t make a play for Australia if that is where you were born. Those two situations would not be ideal for this grant...