Word: blackboarding
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There is no continuity to Godard's parable. There is no consistency in his plot. The characters are blackboard stick figures; they provoke no sympathies; the climax offers no resolution. There is not the slightest degree of realism. There is stylization and fragmentation and polemic...
Memo to the principal: Do not be alarmed if your teachers walk up stairs with toes pointed in, then down again with toes pointed out. Or if they break into deep knee bends at the blackboard. Or if, standing in the lunchroom, they tighten first their feet, then their lower legs, thighs, buttocks and abdominal muscles...
...opting for more than just the requisite 10% of their course credits in the humanities. Literature classes are swamped; creative writing courses have grown tenfold in five years. Says Poet Patricia Gumming of her students: "They make fascinating analogies to science. They have a way of rushing to the blackboard and covering it with equations: W equals world view, G equals God and so on. You can be teaching John Donne and end up with a board like a physics class...
...life will be like after 50 years of marriage. Lila suffers from a fatal form of Midas disease--everything she touches turns to caricature. She has the knack of making a word like "grouch," her favorite epithet for the uncooperative Lenny, grate on the nerves like fingernails down a blackboard...
...benches to learn to read under four naked light bulbs dangling from the ceiling. They are working people, as their rough hands and faded clothes attest. They are clearly still not used to handling a pencil; they clutch them as though they might escape. Copying words from the blackboard, the students trace every letter with infinite pains, eyes darting from paper to board two or three times for each word, erasers gripped in the other hand ready to rub out any slip...