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Gargoyles' Christmas, by Louisa Campbell; illustrated by Bridget Starr Taylor (Gibbs Smith; $19.95), tells a cheerful tale about Craig, Cliff and Christabel, bad-attitude adolescent gargoyles, who feel about Christmas the way Scrooge did. They come alive and, expressing their stony contempt, trash wreaths, trees and blinking lights, finally getting hopelessly tangled in the awful mess. They would be tangled to this day if a fat gent in a red suit had not parked his reindeer nearby. Clinging to the book's spine is a stuffed baby gargoyle...
...children's classic can be described as a book so inviting that a young reader wants to escape into the world it creates. By that definition, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, an account of four sisters living in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 1860s, is immortal. The author drew on her own impoverished childhood as a daughter of Bronson Alcott, a feckless member of the Concord enlightenment. Generations of girls have yearned to join the March household, and they remember the story's high points better than crises of their own lives...
...have to worry about Little Women. As a movie, it is exotic in all the wrong ways for today's market -- all hoop-skirts, candlelight and genteel language. In Louisa May Alcott's world, heavy snowfall was a big-time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a woozily joyful Christmas, and it was omnipresent death, not omnipresent divorce, that threatened childhood's serenity. Can a movie that faithfully reflects this life -- at once harder and more innocent than ours -- and does so without condescension, preachment or gross sentiment, make its way in our times...
...Grolier Book Shop, on Plympton Street,sells books for Major British Writers, ModernAmerican Poetry, and several other Harvard Englishcourses. Its status as the only all-poetrybookstore in the U.S. has earned it write-ups inThe New York Times and other newspapers. "We'requite famous," said Louisa Solano, who owns theshop...
...Louisa Grignon, playing Sartorius's daughter Blanche, creates a creditable version of this, Shaw's most confused character. Her success lies in the fact that she makes the audience feel a simultaneous attraction, revulsion, contempt and sympathy for her. Here, we see the beginnings of some of the rather questionable father-daughter relationships that Shaw went on to create. The director, Mort Kaplan, seems to have done his best to accentuate the suggestions of Blanche's Electra complex...