Word: leavitt
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...History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in describing the discovery of the diary that led to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale. On the contrary, her fifteen-year journey from the discovery of eighteenth-century midwife Martha Ballard's diary to the Boston premiere of Laurie Kahn-Leavitt's film production of her story, is a tale in itself...
Producer Kahn-Leavitt, who came up with the idea of the film project, actively searched for material on pre-photographic history while working for WGBH on the American Experience series...
...read about this book based on this incredible, massive 27-year diary of a midwife and a healer. And I went out the next day and I bought it and dovoured it," Kahn-Leavitt explained...
Thus began Kahn-Leavitt's five-year quest to bring Martha's life to film. Her vision was "to show a real person with this massive cryptic diary...
Part of the reason his approval ratings exceed 80% is that Leavitt fits the evolving profile of Utah's citizenry, a conservative group joined lately by cyberhungry and outdoors-loving transplants from the West Coast. He's hip to online projects like the Western-based "virtual university," and he has defended the environment more forcefully than the Republican-controlled state legislature. Still, Leavitt is no Al Gore: he supports the state's strict antiabortion law and the recent ban on after-school clubs, imposed to deter gay-student alliances. If Dole wins, look for Leavitt to be offered a Cabinet...