Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reforms, the teacher-testing program has produced the most anguish. All teachers will have to pass tests in reading, writing, mathematics and in their specified subject areas. Those who fail will be required to take more training, and if they cannot pass the tests by 1987, they will lose their jobs. The A.E.A., a 17,000-member affiliate of the powerful National Education Association, has called the testing "offensive to a large majority of teachers...
...originally) enough, Baby is about the process of having one. For the youngest of its three central couples (Liz Callaway and Todd Graff), this is as easy and cheering as rolling into bed of an evening. For a slightly older pair (Catherine Cox and Martin Vidnovic), it is an anguish; their scientifically orchestrated struggle to conceive is a humiliation to him and a vast inconvenience to her romantic impulses. For the oldest twosome (Beth Fowler and James Congdon), who already have three grown children, it is a bestartlement; they had no idea that weekend at the Plaza would put such...
...every sleeve and collar by the next day. "That's not the case with Rive Gauche at all," he laments. "I have to work with factories. I give them a sketch and have to wait twelve to 15 days before I see the result. It's total anguish." One of the pressure points of Saint Laurent's calendar is assembling the Rive Gauche costumes just before a show. With Klossowski at his side, he looks at the models. If the girl interests him, he adds the pendants and handkerchiefs to the costume swiftly, murmuring "Superbe"or "Sublime...
Unfortunately, Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions does little to relieve this sense of anguish. Barraging the reader with too many unimportant names and dates, the book describes two centuries of U.S. involvement in Central America with the depth of a high school textbook. Although LaFeber outlines and criticizes the major currents behind U.S. policy he offers no escape from the not-so-merry-go-round in Central America at a time when alternatives are needed most...
...Roof let the words of their characters speak for themselves, and by doing so they arouse our fascination in their relationships. Under the brilliant direction of Kevin Jennings, the actors submerge themselves in the plot and use the sharply vivid language to reveal their characters' mental anguish and desperate attempts at making some sense of their lives. Mounted in the small, dimly lit Dunster Junior Common Room, the play is set on the same level as the audience. The proximity of the actors to the audience is mentally as well as physically intimate. Jennings has merged the play's three...