Word: verna
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...three alumnae chosen to participate in the program are Anne Libbin, a partner in the San Francisco firm Pillsbury Madison and Sutro; Jamie Gorelick, the vice chair of the Fannie Mae Corporation and the former deputy U.S. attorney general; and Verna Myers, deputy chief of staff to the Massachusetts Attorney General...
...Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks By Verna Aardema (Knopf; $17) This Masai tale is wonderful fun to read aloud. That's because of the unusual sound effects. The lioness jumps out of a tree--"gurum!"--and the ostrich chicks run away--"pamdal"--but the lioness, yearning for children even if they have feathers, corrals the chicks and purrs, "Irtil-irtil-irtil." A hyena tries to help the mother ostrich, then slinks away, "Pasa, pasa, pasa." "Nnnn," groans the rightful mother, when suddenly...Quirky illustrations by Yumi Heo are full of gurum, pamdal and lots...
Misoso, by Verna Aardema; illustrated by Reynold Ruffins (Knopf; $18), is a fascinating collection of traditional African tales, which are bound to be new to New World kids: "One morning a toad said to a rat, 'I can do something that you can't do.' 'What?' cried the rat. 'You don't even know how to run. You just throw yourself, lop -- and then you stop and look around."' Yes, and then? Listen for fun, but learn too: leelee goro means "little girl" in the Temne language, and jambo is Swahili for "hello." And a "sloogey dog" is a Saluki...
...Finney), the Irishman who has run the town for years, and Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito), the volatile, flirtatious Italian who is itching to seize control. Their bone of contention is Bernie Bernbaum (John Turturro), a gambler too greedy to live long but too cunning to stay dead. His sister Verna (Marcia Gay Harden) has stolen Leo's heart and is ever ready to fence it. Nice crowd. Shuttling among them, wooed and wounded by them all, is Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), an existential hero with a black Irish soul. We spend most of the movie racing after Tom's mind...