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...Volkswagen poisoning his brain with carbon monoxide? He wonders about this by way of apologizing for the diffuseness of his answers. "I'm not good at sound bites," he observes. True, alas. But what he lacks in snappiness he makes up in peppiness. Spouting acronyms while standing at a blackboard, he approaches the energy level of Robin Williams. He is British (an Oxford physics major), but to watch only his hands as he talks, you'd guess Italian. Five, six years ago, during his "evangelizing" phase, this relentless enthusiasm was what pushed the Web beyond critical mass...
...America. Write about those images: the teacher is a pale, bloodless deacon, drained by unrequited longings, preposterous, out of things. She is the withered maiden; he is Ichabod Crane, humiliated to death by the village nitwit. The only way he gains respect is to become Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle and beat up the classroom hoods. There are exceptions like Mr. Holland's Opus. But the rule is Arnold in Kindergarten...
...dusty stillness of the classrooms after the kids have tromped out. Amid the riot of The Nutty Professor, Eddie Murphy caught that look--all knowledgeable, all wistful, hopeless within his own superiority. Everything he makes vanishes except his size. As he chalks one line of an equation on the blackboard, his belly erases the other line. He is a visual fat joke. But he has something to teach them. He takes them seriously...
...daily meals (called "lab experiments"), a blackboard in the dining tent lists "formulas" that specify the menu (PA for potatoes, CA for cake). The food must be consumed with meticulous care to reduce noise. Bo and Peep usually shop for food and supplies personally. They always pay cash...
...undergraduate TFs in many science classes, the answer is: to the blackboard...