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...Fast ForWord games attack this problem by training youngsters to distinguish among phonemes, first at artificially slowed speeds and then at normal rates of speech. The kids click their mouses on animated screen games to identify what they hear. The training is intense--students must sit before computers for 100 min. a day, five days a week for four to eight weeks--because it takes sharply focused attention to rewire a brain. Last fall, Scientific Learning rolled out Fast ForWord II for children who can use additional training. (Parental disclosure: this writer's 12-year-old son Billy made welcome...
Once upon a time, in the land of the silver screen, summer was reserved for hanging out and making out--preferably at the beach and not in that order. That was how Gidget found her Moondoggie, how Frankie and Annette learned beach-blanket bingo and how Grease's Danny met a girl crazy for him. Sure, those were movies, but when Danny waxed poetic about his nights of summer loving, nobody thought, "What a slacker...
...playwright, physician and friend of Freud's, and has been available in paperback in the U.S. since 1995. Like a lot of the novels on which good movies are based, it is an entertaining, erotically charged fiction of the second rank, in need of the vivifying physicalization of the screen and the kind of narrative focus a good director can bring to imperfect but provocative life--especially when he has been thinking about it as long as Kubrick...
...politics aside, however, Belfast is a pretty nifty place for the 20-something American college student (myself, for example). There are gobs of cosmopolitan student pubs at the center of town, serving up truly amazing amounts of alcohol seven days a week. There's a ten-screen megaplex just down the road offering unlimited movies all summer for the ridiculous price of $35.00. There's an internet cafe, great Indian food and the BBC broadcasting commercial-free 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
...assured pizazz; and Pickford's films, often written by Frances Marion and directed by Marshall Neilan, were the best of the bunch--fresh then, still fresh now. Engaging films like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, A Little Princess and Daddy-Long-Legs strutted their effects (dream sequences, clever animation, split screen and double exposures) in the service of fables as bold as they were sweet...