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Kathleen Bick wanted to treat Larry Becker, her partner in a Los Angeles public relations and design business, to dinner. The occasion was a celebration, so they chose an expensive French eatery called L'Orangerie. But after sitting down, Bick discovered that her menu was not so much pricey as priceless. As is the custom in some establishments that aspire to Old World elegance, Bick, as la femme, had been presented with a special white menu that delicately omitted the prices. Becker got the regular green menu. The couple left without eating, preferring to do their ordering in court...
...Lillian Becker wanted to teach so much that she went back to college for her degree at age 42 and graduated from the City College of New York as a Phi Beta Kappa. Today, at Intermediate School 70 in Manhattan's Chelsea district, Becker scrubs the desks in her classroom herself and sweeps the floor three times each day. Says she: "Kids sense the order, and they like it. They behave differently in a clean classroom...
...keep trying to get homework done." She also believes in sentence diagraming and drill. "They can disregard it later on, but it only becomes part of you later on if you drill now." To discourage predictable student alibis like "I forgot my book" or "I lost my pencil," Becker spends her own money to keep an extra supply of paper and pencils on hand. She always has extra textbooks on her desk...
...dove of peace. Soon the lesson had blossomed into a study of the parts of speech. "I also had them drawing pictures of figures of speech, like 'you drive me up the wall.' They loved it. After that they seemed ready for similes and metaphors." Becker grades themes and tests at home at least three days each week, two to five hours at a stint...
...Director Becker sometimes permits Wambaugh's penchant for psychological overexplanation and realistic background to jostle aside the film's essentially comic spirit. Most of the time, though, characters and situations are permitted to develop their own odd and ultimately catchy rhythms. There is no slickness to the movie. Prentiss is sharp without being abrasive, sweet without being sticky. Foxworth offers a daringly understated performance. He attracts attention and then affection through the kind of patience and politesse that one rarely encounters these days in actors playing lead roles. His work alone would make The Black Marble worth seeing...