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Lisa Pollak
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Baltimore Sun
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Date:
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7/31/2001
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Short feature
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Pollak's well-known, short piece about a near-winner of an Oreo cookie-stacking contest
While covering a cookie-stacking contest, Pollak kept asking herself that ever-important question: What and where is the story? So instead of a cutesy, standard piece about a child winning a competition, we get a more quirky and enduring one, in which a child has to deal with disappointment. And still, things turn out okay. We admire the ending, in which Pollak was able to reconstruct Nyasha's conversation with her stuffed animals -- a lovely way to show her character. Pollak's tone, too, is just right: casual, off-hand, itself a little quirky.
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