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DIED. GAVIN LAMBERT, 80, keenly observant critic, screenwriter and chronicler of Hollywood; in Los Angeles. An ex-assistant to director Nicholas Ray, he became editor of the influential British film journal Sight & Sound before turning out such screenplays as The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and writing biographies of such Hollywood stars as Norma Shearer and Natalie Wood...
...bushel, but she admits, a bit shamefacedly, that she never actually uses them and that the wands go straight to her oldest daughter, Jessica. The most popular living fantasy writer in the world doesn't even especially like fantasy novels. It wasn't until after Sorcerer's Stone was published that it even occurred to her that she had written one. "That's the honest truth," she says. "You know, the unicorns were in there. There was the castle, God knows. But I really had not thought that that's what I was doing. And I think maybe the reason...
There are limits to Harry Potter's sophistication. Since Sorcerer's Stone was published in 1998, world events have moved to the point where they threaten to ask more from the books than they have to give. By Phoenix, the fifth book in the series, Harry is embroiled in a borderless, semi-civil war with a shadowy, hidden leader whose existence the government ignored until disaster forced the issue and who is supported by a secret network of sleeper agents willing to resort to tactics of shocking cruelty. The kids who grew up on Harry Potter--you could call them...
Much of the Class of 2008 was only 12 when J.K. Rowling’s first novel, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” was published in the U.S., the beginning of a seven-book sensation that has made Rowling richer than the Queen of England and turned thousands of readers, like Gong, into Potter fanatics...
...enormity of the challenge: "We do the best we can, but it's not our achievements people want to talk about." ASI director general Rajeev admits that the poor skills of the manual laborers he employs have led to some insensitive restorations, such as in Hampi, where stone and concrete buttresses now all but obscure several temples. But he adds that sometimes there's no time for subtlety: "If stones are falling down, we have to use concrete...