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...overcome with grief at the loss of her lover and suddenly the narrator leaves the room in which she spent most of the first half of the novel and explores the area around her. It is in this time that she explores her sexuality, as well. As the characters mesh together and time becomes more constant, The Painter of Birds comes together...
...used to be," Hart says, "that in the presence of one another, kids formed a critical mass to keep each other safe. Gone are the days when children make any of their own plans." Their fearful, ambitious parents made plans for them, but these plans don't always mesh, unfortunately. A suburban Chicago mom who wishes to remain anonymous called up a school friend of her daughter's to arrange a play date. The kindergartner was booked solid. "It seems like kids today are always on the way to somewhere," complains the disillusioned...
...angled wire mesh and glass facade is the defining feature-and point of contention-of the structure, designed by Austrian architect Hans Hollein, dean of the Vienna Academy of Arts and a recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture. His designs are known for fitting into the aesthetic and historical settings of a city, but at the same time, are considered fairly radical...
...buzz on the Japanese soul-master is growing. According to The Roots drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" (pronounced "Questlove") Thompson, Kubota's authenticity comes across, even if he does not mesh with conventional ideas of what a soul singer should look like. "I'm one of those idealists who thinks soul music comes from the inside. I don't think you have to be black or raised on collard greens, fried chicken and cornbread to be part of the soul experience." He says that when the group first heard of Kubota, they thought: "Oh God?a Japanese soul singer?" They stopped laughing...
...findings mesh perfectly with what we already know about how the brain reads, says Dr. Bennett Shaywitz, who co-directs the Center for the Study of Learning and Attention at Yale University. The brain, he explains, does not have an innate reading ability--as it does for speech--so it deals with the written word by converting it into the nuts and bolts of a familiar phonetic language. According to prevailing theory, the reading centers of the brain break words down into sound units known as phonemes and recognize them as the elements of a phonetic code. Then the centers...