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	Penguin Reading Guides \| Staircase of a Thousand Steps \| Masha Hamilton
		Staircase of a Thousand Steps lifts the veil from a mystical land where jasmine and dung mix and where men and women embrace the inconceivable.
		When I sat down to write a novel, I had to reopen those emotional valves because all these characters who are not me still must be informed by me. At certain points I completely let go of the idea of plot in the traditional sense, and focused solely on the emotional lives of my characters.
		Is this novel a loose re-telling of Romeo and Juliet?
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/staircase_of_a_thousand.html (1896 words)

	The Films of Robert Siodmak - by Michael Grost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Phantom Lady (1944) is a faithful adaptation of the 1942 novel by Cornell Woolrich.
		Listening to it, the characters are literally swept up into it, and their thoughts and feelings are taken over by the music.
		Staircases tend to be in oppressive institutions: the prison, the asylum.
	hometown.aol.com /mg4273/siodmak.htm (2622 words)

	Novel: Return of the Legends
		The grave team members eased down the steep concrete stairway through layers of history, moving past exposed masonry and the ponderous foundation walls of the original basilica, built by Constantine in the fourth century.
		After a minute she stopped and pulled out her map of the excavations — confusing down here, passageways snaking every which way — and she dropped to her knees at the entrance of the nearest tomb to get oriented.
		She tore across the grassy field and stooped down at the edge of the landing pad.
	jdlasica.com /novel/celebrity.html (1725 words)

	Anthology of Thirties Prose
		He was never certain whether they had given him the once-over or not; and sometimes he would dash up the steps, his nerves in his fingers, see what floor the elevator stopped on, and walk by her room as she unlocked it, his eyes passing over into her tightly-skirted body.
		Down a bit a gang of boes were about, warming themselves at a bonfire near the watchman's station that was built like an outhouse.
		Walking like that couldn't keep him up; he wished at that moment he had a hotel room to go to; there were probably loads of empty rooms in the town that night; if he could find one he'd climb in through the window and slip out about five in the morning without anyone knowing it.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/White/anthology/dahlberg.html (9563 words)

	Up the Down Staircase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Up the Down Staircase is a humorous novel written by Bel Kaufman, and published in 1965.
		Frustrated by petty bureaucracy (the name of the novel refers to an infraction one of her students was punished for), the indifference of her students, and the incompetence of many of her colleagues, she decides to leave public school to work in a smaller private setting.
		The novel is set in Calvin Coolidge High School, a fictional New York City school that is more of a microcosm of the New York City school system rather than resemble any particular high school or neighborhood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Up_the_Down_Staircase (334 words)

	The Spiral Staircase (1946)
		Unbeknownst to her, there is a man hiding behind the row of densely packed garments hanging in her closet, and at the perfect moment when the woman’s dress is up over her head, this man springs forth and strangles her to death.
		She ends up making the last leg of the trek alone anyway, however, because before they get to the house, a young boy comes running down the path hollering about how his mother needs a doctor.
		Wouldn’t you know it, a thunderstorm breaks out right after sundown, when Helen is still most of a mile from the Warren place, and between the darkness and the rain, she doesn’t notice that she’s being followed at a stealthy distance by a man in a fl raincoat and hat.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsn-z/spiralstaircase1946.htm (1450 words)

	Up the Down Steroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Up the Down Steroid" is episode 803 of the Comedy Central series South Park.
		Meanwhile, Jimmy takes steroids and ends up being very violent to the point of attacking his girlfriend and his mother (with Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" playing as the atmospheric soundtrack as he loses his mind).
		The episode title refers to the 1964 young adult novel Up the Down Staircase, by Bel Kaufman, which was made into a 1967 movie starring Sandy Dennis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Up_the_Down_Steroid (961 words)

	Review \| The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
		Then comes a complete and shocking reversal: her thesis is coldly rejected as inadequate, forcing her to come up with an alternate plan for her life.
		It's ironic that Armstrong ends up in a kind of monastic, solitary existence, alone with the divine.
		The spiritual nuances she expresses are impossible to sum up briefly.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/spiralstaircase.html (1393 words)

	Dog Tip: Dog Tip: Scared of Stairs?
		Perhaps the dog was yelled at for going up or down a stairway, or had fallen down stairs during his formative weeks, or was pushed down steps.
		While we do not advocate forcing a dog up or down steps, some dogs will respond to a combination of firm physical encouragement and happy talk, which conveys to him that you, the leader, are not at all afraid of the steps and to trust you.
		The indoor staircase was also taller, included a turn at a landing, and led to a narrow hallway, which might seem somewhat intimidating to a dog inexperienced with stairways.
	www.paw-rescue.org /PAW/PETTIPS/DogTip_FearOfSteps.php (1407 words)

	Q&A with Paul Auster
		In the case of our poor mutt, he was actually being kicked and beaten up by a bunch of bad men somewhere in Brooklyn at the moment of his rescue.
		He wound up in the hospital with a broken arm or broken collar bone.
		He was so scared that for the first week he couldn't walk up or down the staircase in the house.
	www.bluecricket.com /auster/articles/qanda.html (2053 words)

	VHS : Up the Down Staircase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jean Stapleton was superb in her part as the school secretary, wrapped up in endless silly forms and paperwork, yet with a respect for the 'artistic' English teacher/writer that motivated her to falsify his time.
		What I appreciate especially about Up the down staircase is that with a minimum of special effects or dramatic events, a realistic portrayal of school life is achieved - from the teacher's as well as from the pupil's point of view.
		But it is really as Sylvia Barrett in "Up the Down Staircase," and not her Oscar winning performance as Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" that is how I think most people remember this talented actress.
	www.go-israel.com /630315087X/Up_the_Down_Staircase.html (1369 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Staircase: Books: Ann Rinaldi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She must now attend the Catholics' mass, where the nuns and girls constantly pray a novena to St. Joseph so the staircase to the choir loft in the church will be rebuilt, and is taught Catholic "virtues" by the nuns of the church.
		This is the story of the "miracle staircase" built in only two weeks by a mysterious man in 1878 in Santa Fe, in the Sisters of Loretto chapel.
		According to history, the nuns were praying for a staircase to be built to the upper level, and a mysterious stranger came, built it, and left quietly without payment.
	www.amazon.ca /Staircase-Ann-Rinaldi/dp/0152167889 (1933 words)

	The Winchester Star-‘Up the Down Staircase’ Gives Students a Chance to Shine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An updated version of “Up The Down Staircase,” a play based on Bel Kaufman’s novel about a neophyte teacher in a tough city school, opens Friday at Winchester Little Theatre.
		Though the play is based on a novel set in the 1960s, the theatre’s version takes place in a modern day New York City school.
		The cast of “Up The Down Staircase” is the largest she’s worked with so far, so actors had to cultivate their characters without a lot of individual attention from the director.
	www.winchesterstar.com /thewinchesterstar/030515/Life_show.asp (608 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Grand Staircase
		It was a novel approach for wilderness protection that even would be explored at length on an episode of the TV-series "The West Wing." Clinton later would use the Antiquities Act to create 15 more national monuments.
		Andalex ended up agreeing to a $14 million buyout by the federal government of its claims on 34,499 acres in the monument.
		Bird, however, said estimates of the value of the land given up in Grand Staircase-Escalante were far greater than what was gained and could have produced a steady revenue stream for maybe hundreds of years.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,645201833,00.html (3304 words)

	Simple Arm and Shoulder Exercises with Dumbbells
		Going up and down those stairs several times a day is strengthening your legs and heart.
		For the calf muscles, hold onto something with one hand, then smoothly rise up and down on the balls of the feet 10-15 times with your legs straight.
		This is even more effective done on a staircase, with the balls of the feet on the step and the heels coming down below the level of the step in the bottom position.
	www.csd.net /~dvorkin/wts/lfwcol3.html (831 words)

	Amazon.com: Up the Down Staircase: Books: Bel Kaufman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Schoolteachers make up a pretty small percentage of the population, but "Up the Down Staircase" gives us a little glimpse of exactly what it is like to be one.
		One chapter is even devoted to the extremely imaginative lies that the students think up to explain what happened to their homework ("Some one stole it") with a bit of honesty as well ("I didn't know we were supposed to do it").
		"Up the Down Staircase" is touching and funny, a novel in the barest sense but immensely enjoyable.
	www.amazon.com /Up-Down-Staircase-Bel-Kaufman/dp/0060973617 (1689 words)

	Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter
		Many years ago there was a best-selling book "Up the down staircase." Looks like Lingle wants to move a few steps up those down stairs.
		At the very, very least we are tending in the right direction -– up toward self-government, self-actualization, self-responsibility and self-respect.
		Every step up counts much more than a down one because hope and opportunity bring creativity to bloom in individuals much faster than oppression wilts it.
	www.hawaiireporter.com /story.aspx?bc1b462f-de10-4f71-91c6-b3c8bb4f550c (454 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger
		Growing up with three brothers in a home beset by multiple divorces automatically gives you a sense of what family is, isn't, and should be.
		Growing up gay in a world where you're beaten up as a kid and relegated to second-class citizenship as an adult pretty much offers you the same perspective.
		One chapter would consist of her students' contributions to the classroom suggestion box; another would be comprised of inter-school memoranda sent back and forth amongst the characters; a third would be the teacher's long narrative letters to her best friend, etc. It struck me as a high school sophomore that Ms.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/almost_being_love2.asp (1118 words)

	The Spiral Staircase
		What triggers them or what they're trying to accomplish with their killings is often the whole crux of the movie and is usually revealed in the final moments of the film.
		To bring this all back around to The Spiral Staircase and why it succeeded in being a creepy good time, instead of being as old and creaky as the house it takes place in, it's because it employs a lot of things that you'd find in the Italian variant of the body count film.
		Throw in the close up and zooming shots of the killer's eye as well as a fairly disturbing moment where the servant girl looks into a mirror and realizes she has no mouth and you can tell that you're not in for some pansy murder melodrama.
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /Spiral_Staircase.html (1448 words)

	Post-Traumatic School Disorder
		School itself was a sentence to be served — sit, march, sit, march, sit, march, walk on the right side of the staircase.
		If I had the power (better, a magic wand), I would close down every public school today, within the next nanosecond, refund all the tax money to the parents, and let them educate their children any way they wanted.
		The tragic victim of King's novel, Carrie White, was a scapegoat and an outcast, just like most of the school shooters.
	home.att.net /~bob.wallace/posttraumaticschool.html (1663 words)

	The Films of Claude Chabrol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Also, the floor in Les Cousins is largely at one level, while that in the later film goes up and down in complex ways.
		Next, the hero's face and the staircase behind him are reflected in the mirrored surface of a hotel desk.
		At the train station, there is a spectacular crane shot that goes up from one side of the station, looks at a clock high up on the station wall, then down to the heroine standing on the other side of the station.
	hometown.aol.com /mg4273/chabrol.htm (2255 words)

	spiralstaircase
		Siodmak loads up on the 'old dark house' crime film genre clichés as there's rumbles of thunder, a stormy nighttime setting, shadowy rooms traversed by a flickering candle, creaking doors, banging shutters from the wind, windows mysteriously opened, and a capacious isolated country house filled with ominous sounds.
		The brilliant opening scene of the actual murder of a crippled girl who can't yell for help in her hotel room while guests are ironically watching a silent movie on the floor below, is shot in the German expressionist style the director was noted for and sets the suspenseful mood the film maintains throughout.
		It's learned that the professor was taking care of Steven's mother while the womanizer real son travelled the world, as it is further learned that their late hunter father thought little of both--calling them weaklings because they didn't know how to use a gun.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/spiralstaircase.htm (929 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Aimee Bender
		Her psychological development thrown off kilter by a father who suddenly develops an apparently terminal case of hypochondria, a little girl named Mona Gray grows up to be a troubled young woman in love with turning away from what she loves, from piano lessons to track runs to sexual relationships.
		This is Up the Down Staircase as told by the Brothers Grimm, or Hansel and Gretel traipsing through The Blackboard Jungle.
		That'd be compelling enough, but the enterprise is further blessed by Bender's new-found ability to match her fantastic imagination with fully developed characters and a plot that moves beyond mere quirkiness to offer a compelling exploration of death and desire.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/07.27.00/bender-0030.html (689 words)

	Up the Down Staircase (1967) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Goofs: Factual errors: During the opening montage establishing the first day of school in September in a New York high school, several shots were obviously filmed in dead of winter with extras in heavy coats, gray skies, etc. contrasting wildly with scenes of sunny skies and lightweight costumes of main characters.
		Sandy Dennis was realistic as the young idealistic teacher trying to cope in a traditional urban setting in "Up the Down Staircase," based on Bel Kaufman's best seller.
		You really have to be a teacher or at least know one to have any idea of what is going on in our public schools.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0062425 (444 words)

	The finer points of helping out \| csmonitor.com
		Two years ago, Nick Hornby examined the personal costs of philanthropy in a comic novel called "How to be Good." Last year, in "A Bed for the Night," David Rieff claimed that international relief organizations create a debilitating culture of dependency among their starving beneficiaries.
		But Price's novel, without the satiric exaggeration of Hornby's comedy or the depressing futility of Rieff's exposé, is most likely to scrape one's tender good will.
		His writing class attracts only a few students, but walking up the down staircase, Ray is thrilled to think he's going to save these needy fl kids with the power of his unconditional white love.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0130/p14s02-bogn.htm (707 words)

	Sleight of Hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The staircase swirls like a line of chocolate in a mix of vanilla, the walls light and warm, the monolith imposing and swept up.
		Guiding himself over to her, he sits down gently next to her and proceeds to knead her shoulder muscles for a moment or two, looking at her tenderly.
		And he pulls, pulls down, and her hands slip around his shoulders, his neck and he doesn’t let her go, not even when the material rips red.
	deep-down.net /fanfic/btvsats/sleight.html (2189 words)

	Love Stories, Teenage Love Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Between earth and heaven there is a holy commerce; prayer ascends, and answers come down by the way of Jesus, the Mediator.
		We shall live the angelic life ourselves if we run up to heaven in intercession, lay hold upon the blessings of the covenant, and then descend again to scatter those gifts among the sons of men.
		This very day we will be up and down the ladder each hour: climbing in communion and coming down in labor to save our fellowmen.
	acacia.pair.com /Journey.of.the.Heart/misc/06.25.Love_Stories.html (255 words)

	JWA Presents "This Week in History"
		When Bel Kaufman published Up the Down Staircase on January 27, 1965, she was already a published writer, whose short stories had appeared in magazines like Esquire and The Saturday Review.
		Her experiences there were the inspiration for Up the Down Staircase.
		The novel uses a series of memos, directives, student comments, teachers' notes, and various materials drawn from school wastepaper baskets to detail a new idealistic teacher's encounters with the administrative bureaucracy of an inner-city school.
	www.jwa.org /this_week/week04.html (1080 words)

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