Word: novelizations
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...movie is an adaptation of Lois Duncan's 1971 young-adult novel of the same name. The character of Andi has been aged enough to cast the teen queen Roberts in the role. Roberts gives the impression of poise earned by experience rather than a natural gift, but by Hollywood standards, she is royalty - Julia Roberts is her aunt - and director Thor Freudenthal seems to have shot her accordingly, bathed in golden light. The family-in-peril angle is also a change from Duncan's story. While Andi and Bruce's kindly social-services caseworker Bernie (Don Cheadle, who could...
...response to the dramatic surge in crime in the 1960s, lawmakers across the country and at all levels of government responded with a novel and dangerous policy known today as mass incarceration. Sociologist David Garland defines mass incarceration as the policies that produce a national imprisonment rate that exceeds the historical and comparative norm for similar societies. Since then, the U.S. incarceration rate has skyrocketed to 715 per 100,000, the highest in the world (Russia is a distant second...
...local professors of history warmed up the sub-freezing Wednesday evening and brought listeners back to 18th century Boston with a lively reading of their collaborative novel at the Harvard Book Store...
...novel alternates between Jameson’s memoir and Fanny’s letters. The two are also interspersed with articles from the Boston Gazette, a Revolutionary War-era newspaper. Blindspot, which was released in December, is written in “two predominant voices, by two authors,” Kamensky said...
Forty-eight years ago to the week, John F. Kennedy issued a call to national service using a still novel technology for political communication: television. "Ask what you can do for your country," he commanded from the Capitol's steps in his Inaugural Address, words that would inspire a generation of leaders to enter government service...