Word: blackboarding
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...they got no shame?" reads a sign on the blackboard in the second floor room in Mass Hall. The sign is red chalk, and against the slate smooth surface of the blackboard resembles a question written in dried blood, a dead man's last words...
...SEMINAR, the last of the term, began poorly. The instructor, a tall sort of guy, held eight inches of cigarette in his mouth, wrote unnecessary the blackboard, and spent most of time reading from a book. Midway his reading a 6'6" giant burst noisily room, looked around, and dropped chair. The tail of his coat caught on back of the chair as he sat down, above shoulder level when he finally a comfortable position. An aisle in front , a woman perched an unlit extralong cigarette in her as if to imitate the seminar smokers greeted the instructor's about...
...play centers on the fierce duel of wiles and wills between Elizabeth I (Eileen Atkins) and Mary Stuart (Claire Bloom). The two never meet, yet each haunts the mind of the other. Robert Bolt writes a number of what might be called "blackboard scenes" to fill in the history, and he manages these cleverly and without pedantry...
...this wonderful band of brothers, this few: a non-flying Battle of Britain squadron captained by Keats and supported by Byron, Pushkin, and Scott Fitzgerald. As to Cassidy himself, he was their squire, polishing their fur-lined boots, posting their last letters and wiping their names off the blackboard when they didn't come back...
...shot or ball-stealing play. "I don't know what it is, really," confesses West, whose Laker salary is a reported $200,000 a year. "But whatever it is, we like it." Sharman knows exactly what it is, and he has printed the answer on the dressing room blackboard in large letters: RUN. The fast-breaking Lakers have read the word and reacted by outhustling all comers...