Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple who marched up the aisle during the second act seemed particularly weary of a plot device that has the hero, a tap-dancing gang leader, repeatedly fake his own murder. As the departing woman looked back at the stage, she whispered, "He's alive again." Muttered her companion: "Better he should have stayed dead...
...current musical scene is Andrew Lloyd Webber, the British composer whose shows have been about felines, religious figures and monsters -- anything but old-fashioned romance, conventional boy meets girl. In hopes of matching Webber's profits, today's producers imitate his preference for way-out concepts, the loopier the better. Part of the reason such masters as Lerner and Loewe made it look so easy is that they did not feel compelled to contort themselves and their stories. Maybe they knew something worth rediscovering...
...kids of fallacies that have become ingrained even by age 17. "You want to defend your old misconceptions, but you can't," says Matthew Liebman, a STAR student at Massachusetts' Framingham North High School. Despite the difficulties, preliminary studies by Shapiro's team suggest that STAR students have a better grasp of basic scientific concepts and mathematics than students in ordinary courses. "We're definitely making headway and in directions we hadn't expected," says Sadler, who is continually searching for fresh teaching methods...
...students, the gains can be rich. Some of Sadler's initial findings reveal that STAR students do about 30% better than ordinary students in absorbing concepts and learn about twice as much math as their regular counterparts. "I used to look up at the night sky and say, 'Yeah, so what?' " recalls Aphrodite Kapetanakos, a Watertown junior. "Now I show my friends a constellation and say, 'Check it out!' All they know is the Big Dipper...
...mistake. Oates is here working at the very top of her form, her idiosyncratic virtues eerily in phase with the temperamental excesses for which she has so often been rebuked. Those who want to know what makes her important -- as opposed to merely famous -- could find no better place to begin than right here...