Word: magic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after Harry Potter? If you have kept up with your reading, you would know the complete list of evil-doers: Harry's horrible Muggle (non-magic) family including his pig of a cousin Dudley, the school bully Malfoy Draco, Professor Snape and of course, the evil wizard he-who-cannot-be-named, Voldemort. But author J.K. Rowling has a few to add to her list as of last week--parents in South Carolina, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina and Georgia...
Parents have complained that the recent rave over the Potter books is nothing more than an evil curse, a sort of black magic that has cast its spell over fourth-graders everywhere. They argue that Rowling is promoting witchery (a bonafide religion in the United States) over good old-fashioned Christianity. You see, Harry Potter is no ordinary boy. He is a wizard-in-training, and in Rowling's books, there is a whole magic world out there which he inhabits. Except, of course, when he has to go home for the holidays...
Those books also detailed adventures in a magic world void of parents host to unearthly creatures, real and present danger, witches and wizards (good and bad), talking animals, intoxicating drinks and magical sweets, in short all the things which parents have objected to in Rowling's novels. Yet Lewis' books have gone down as one of the great children's series of all time, not to mention surreptitiously inculcating children of all ages with the tenets of the Christian faith...
Team support and the excitement McDougall herself created may very well have helped junior Ali Shipley as well. With two diving wins of her own, Shipley's performances evidenced the strength of the diving corps. Her aerial magic and clean entries gave her decisive victories on both the one-meter and three-meter events, winning by eight points and 28 points, respectively...
This enchanting chatterbox, with the round face and electrified hair of a Madrid muppet, makes you believe the oldest myth of cinema: that the magic is real, that movie people in person are as delightful, as bigger-than-life, as they are on the giant screen. Thus the truest compliment to pay his movies--those tangy, nourishing stews of bent men and brave women, of comedy and melodrama, passion and grief--is to say they are every bit as beguiling as he is. And the only thing to say about his new film, All About My Mother, is that...