Word: louisa
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...attempt to broaden my eight-year-old daughters' video interests beyond Disney princesses, I recently rented the 1994 rendition of Little Women. It was delightful to introduce my girls to the Louisa May Alcott classic and we were all enjoying the adventures, joys and tribulations of the March family when about halfway through the movie, selfless and compassionate Beth contracts scarlet fever. The illness almost kills her and leaves her heart permanently weakened. My daughters were perplexed and frightened. Could they get scarlet fever? Could their friends get scarlet fever...
Remember Mr. March, from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women? Probably not, since he spends most of the book offstage, preaching to Union troops in the Civil War. In March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Brooks liberates him from obscurity and follows him as he wanders a country divided by racism and blasted by atrocity. March could easily have come off as a preachy pill, but Brooks plays him as a paradox--an intellectual buffeted by passion, a man of faith bedeviled by doubt. He is constantly confronted with moral dilemmas that he can only bluff his way through...
...does theater only in summer. Her three older kids with husband sculptor Donald Gummer, however, are in their 20s and already making their own forays into show biz. Son Henry will appear in Lying with Chloe Sevigny, and daughter Mamie is in a film with Richard Gere. Once Louisa, now 14, is in college, Streep can take to the stage with a vengeance. Four kids, a long marriage, great beauty, bushels of awards and some of the best movie performances ever. This brings us to the final myth...
...Louisa Solano was the owner of the Grolier Poetry Bookshop on Plympton Street from...
...people who spent their lives studying those subjects,” she says. Scott, who was on the junior varsity fencing team, suspects that her freshman dormmates were assigned to Canaday according to their first names. She says, “On my floor we had two Lisas, a Louisa and a Melissa. Downstairs we had John, John, Jim, and Joe, all Jewish. Across the firedoor were Andy, Andy, Steve, and Steve. There were rooms like this all over Canaday.” When she was an upperclassman, Scott met her future life partner and literary collaborator, Lisa A. Barnett...