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...rock to read." Parents pleaded to have their children placed in her classes. Colleagues copied her methods. For hundreds of schoolkids in San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Dillon embodied some of their favorite fictional characters--Miss Rumphius, Ms. Frizzle and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, all rolled into one. She was a wizard with a delicious sense of fun who turned everything she touched into a teaching tool. So it seemed entirely in character that when she was struck with a catastrophic neuromuscular disease, she would use her tragedy as yet another lesson...
This superb production of The Secret Garden is hampered only slightly by technical problems such as microphones that would randomly turn on and off and noisy scenery changes during quiet moments of the show. As in The Wizard of Oz, color and lighting enhance mood. Like Dorothy opening the door of her black-and-white house to enter a world full of color, the inhabitants of Misselthwaite Manor witness a change from gray gloom to vibrant whites, reds, yellows, and blues when Mary tends Lilly's dormant garden and nurtures it back to life. This transition, however, does not take...
...There's no place like home. And there's really no pair of shoes like the 6B ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz." The shoes, worth estimated at $750,000, are up for sale at Christie's East's sale of Hollywood and television memorabilia...
Morris brilliantly captured his subject in "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt." But he found Ronald Reagan so impenetrable that he resorted to inventing a fictionalized alter Edmund to give imaginative life and depth to "Dutch." The Wizard of Oz was a wizard indeed, and he worked great magic (the transformation of Americans' view of their country and the role of their government, for example). But Reagan could also seem to Morris an appallingly and mysteriously empty suit - banal, passive, incurious, abstracted...
Pavlovsky dismisses the vote-fixing charges and plays down his reputation as the Kremlin's electoral wizard, describing his role as that of a modest analyst. But it is a sign of the times that Putin's election is not credited to a business tycoon or Kremlin staff member but to a professional political organizer--a former dissident and political exile who scorns the "intellectual poverty" of the Gorbachev years and is bullish on the Internet. His consulting firm, the Fund for Effective Politics, avoids the limelight but enjoys a reputation for achieving the impossible. One would-be client...