Word: hopscotches
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Children learn how to hopscotch in Ethiopian, Italian and Chinese fashion, how to imitate animal sounds and how to say "I love you" in Spanish, Cambodian, Haitian Creole and Cantonese. All of this comes from the Kids Bridge "instructors," interactive television screens which connect the viewer with hyperactive videotaped peers...
...public and private schools, tolerated at South High School in Minneapolis, where they are currently very popular, but dismissed as flashy by students at Country Day School in Charlotte, N.C. Traditionalists, who would not wear such shorts even on an Exercycle, claim that standard uniforms (blazers for boys, pleated hopscotch skirts for girls) have social as well as practical value. For one thing, they ease the economic burden of providing kids with money for trendy items like mock reptile sneakers, dressy ensembles featuring bold plaids and checks or color-dunked designer sweats...
...began winning international acclaim for a Colombian journalist named Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yet nearly three years elapsed before One Hundred Years of Solitude made its way into English. The reason for the delay? Argentine Author Julio Cortazar, whose novel Rayuela had become a critical success in the U.S. as Hopscotch, offered Garcia Marquez a piece of advice based on his own happy experience: Get your book translated by Professor Gregory Rabassa of New York City. As it happened, Garcia Marquez had to wait a while; Rabassa was busy...
Since he won a National Book Award for his translation of Cortazar's Hopscotch in 1967, Rabassa has juggled two careers. He remains a dedicated teacher and scholar, having left Columbia some 20 years ago to become a professor at Queens College of the City University of New York. And he has, of course, translated incessantly. "I could have done more if I had given up teaching," he says, "but I used spare time and weekends. And there are always the summers...
...Catskill resorts he tried a series of personae. Sometimes he was a road-company Henny Youngman: "I grew up in a tough neighborhood. We played hopscotch with real Scotch." On other occasions he was a Xerox of Woody Allen: "I was so self-conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about...