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...songs and chatter, supplemented by lively workbooks starring Batman, Conan the Barbarian and Donald Duck. "It's fun," says Powel Pupil Richard Williams, 9, adding that at home he hails his father with "Salve!"At New York City's private Trinity School, eighth-graders take turns reading aloud about a freed slave who owns a glassmaking shop. Teacher Cornelia Iredell spices the session by mixing in bits of grammatical instruction with the information that Roman merchants had to pay protection money to hoods in order to keep stores from being trashed...
...biggest crime in putting on Betrayal, Pinter's anthem to anomie--beyond counting aloud the dramatic pauses--is to present the play like Cliff Notes for Brief Encounter; in other words, to play it on the level...
...have seen him appear moody only once: at a lunch with six writers after the Democratic Convention, when the polls had given the Democratic ticket a momentary up-flip. He was disturbed not by Mondale's nomination, but by Ferraro's. He pondered it aloud, then reverted to his past. "You know," he said, "she steps on her own lines. She can't wait for the applause moment...
...encore in 1978, Cauthen, with a little help from a horse named Affirmed, went on to become the youngest rider ever to win the Triple Crown. Some wondered aloud whether his nerve and savvy, his seeming oneness with the animal he rode, would make him the greatest jockey in the world...
...Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center last week evoked a much different emotion. For at least two years, journalists and associates had noticed that Ali appeared to have aged beyond his years: his hand-eye coordination seemed to be impaired, and his speech was frequently unintelligible. The question was asked, aloud and in print: Could Ali, 42, who retired from boxing almost three years ago, be suffering from some kind of brain disorder...