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...London in all its flash and falseness in Darling, which made Julie Christie a star. His U.S. film debut, the 1969 Midnight Cowboy, was the only X-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar and the first of the gay director's several films dealing with homosexuality. His visual style often strained unduly to make editorial points, but he knew the fears that eat at smart people. This made him the right man to direct the angst-ridden thriller Marathon Man and Alan Bennett's An Englishman Abroad--another portrait in Schlesinger's gallery of men clever enough...
When you think about it, that anyone can read at all is something of a miracle. Reading requires your brain to rejigger its visual and speech processors in such a way that artificial markings, such as the letters on a piece of paper, become linked to the sounds they represent. It's not enough simply to hear and understand different words. Your brain has to pull them apart into their constituent sounds, or phonemes. When you see the written word cat, your brain must hear the sounds /k/ ... /a/... /t/ and associate the result with an animal that purrs...
...Kids 3-D: Game Over has a frenzy of invention too, as Juni must win a video game to... I forget--save the world? But its visual thrills are chilly and wearying compared with the other films' quirky humanity. It's not a megamovie; it's a Sega movie. The parents just about disappear. (Has any top-billed star spent less time onscreen than Banderas does here?) As for the 3-D glasses: now you know why that '50s fad ended so quickly...
...different rates for different people. One way to make sure that older family members are not road hazards is to ride with or follow the driver during an outing. Drifting from lane to lane, running stop lights, bumping curbs and failing to signal are signs that reaction time, visual acuity and other skills are declining. A little sleuthing, such as checking the car for dents, can help...
...afternoon winds down with an “explorations” class—during which students pursue one of several non-academic offerings, such as public speaking or visual art—and a 50-minute “homework hut,” where they begin their two hours of nightly homework under their teachers’ supervision, allowing them pose questions lingering from the day’s classes...