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...children? Consider "Read-A-Logo," put out by Teacher Support Software and used by 3,800 kindergartners in Texas' Cypress-Fairbanks School District. "Taco Bell has [blank] and burritos," one test sentence runs. Insists Suzanne Thompson, early-childhood coordinator for the district: "They have been going to Taco Bell since long before kindergarten. This connects to their prior learning." But Alex Molnar, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of a book on corporations in the classroom, argues that "the long-term impact is to undermine and trivialize the curriculum...
...feel it particularly in Cezanne's series of landscapes of his "sacred mountain," Mont Sainte-Victoire. Now it is a mere shimmer of profile in a watercolor, whose blank paper becomes the white light of the Midi, burning through the pale flecks of color. Elsewhere, in the late oils, it achieves a tremendous faceted density, that crouched lion of rock. In between there are lyrical tributes to it, as in Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue, 1882-85, where it appears almost shyly on the left of a tender, early springtime landscape, all new green, traversed by an aqueduct (sign...
...system, called OS/2 Warp, as a likely target for the corporate ax. With just 13 million users, far behind Microsoft Windows' 120 million, OS/2 seemed doomed. But instead of killing the project, Gerstner beatified it, assigning the company's top engineers to it and giving V.P. Wally Casey a blank check for development. The results of the effort, code-named Merlin, will begin shipping to beta testers in the next month...
Depp handles his "blank page" role well, his face as untroubled as a statue's despite the violence he sees. Scenes are intentionally stolen one after the other by cameo players such as John Hurt, Alfred Molina, Crispin Glover and Iggy Pop as the inexplicable transvestite/cannibal Salvatore "Sally" Jenko. In "Dead Man," these unlikely cameos provide a solid, convincing foundation on which the larger drama plays itself...
Both Malkovich and Deneuve portray their characters adequately; Padovic is as sexy and patronizingly intellectual as Malkovich's character in "Dangerous Liaisons," and Deneuve plays both the discontented wife and the love manipulator with the same blank, dark face...