Word: kindergartener
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...personally selected Jane Mynors' nursery school in west London, but still could not help asking Mynors, "You will look after him?" For his part, Prince William, 3, maintained his regal composure last week as he became the first heir to the British throne to attend kindergarten. Arriving with the obviously anxious Prince Charles and Princess Diana, William politely shook hands with his teacher and turned obediently to wave a hand at the horde of journalists. Then, without fuss or fidget, the royal pupil disappeared into the basement classroom, where he began an introductory curriculum of paper and clay modeling, painting...
...films and scores of plays who in her most memorable role, as the cackling, green-faced Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's classic The Wizard of Oz, became an incarnation of evil to generations of deliciously scared children; in Salisbury, Conn. Ironically, Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before succumbing to the acting bug in 1932. She went on to portray dozens of stern spinsters, puritanical aunts and smarmy gossips, and was well known as the kindly storekeeper Cora in five years of Maxwell House coffee TV commercials...
...movie of Cyrano de Bergerac in the U.S.S.R., but authorities turned down the plan. Now he is in California trying to sell Hollywood capitalists on his latest project: a movie about the last years of D'Artagnan and the aging three musketeers. The creator of the 1984 Soviet film Kindergarten describes his new script as a "sparkling tragedy" about the "relationship of heroic people with the Establishment. I think the majority of humanity are unrealized musketeers." He talked to Jack Nicholson about playing D'Artagnan, but is prepared to take the job himself if necessary. Says Yevtushenko with a hint...
...received a 1-Y medical draft deferral during the Viet Nam War because of a pierced eardrum. Dornan, 51, a former Air Force jet pilot, was in flight training at the tail end of the Korean conflict. "I was getting my Air Force wings when Downey was in kindergarten," says Dornan...
...will do something that puts me at right angles to the world." She insists this is not a handicap but a help. "My disability is one of the greatest advantages I have," she says. "It helped me become a student of the thinking process before I was even in kindergarten. It now helps me understand the way other people think...