Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tracy Robinson was losing them. The lesson for her fourth-grade class at Cincinnati's Vine Elementary School on this Friday afternoon was fractions, and as she stood at the front of the room with her textbook, explaining why 1/3 is larger than 1/4, she saw blank stares. No hands were raised. She drew shapes on the blackboard, shading in parts of them, but that didn't work either. The kids were wiggling in their seats. "I was getting so nervous," Robinson recalls. "I was feeling like, 'O.K., now what...
...weeks of your time determine your effort for the year. But not only is the time factor of final exams flawed, but the composition of exams is equally at fault. How can three hours test the amount of information amassed during a semester? If we were given a blank blue book and told to write down three hours worth of material from the class, most people would be able to do it, and no one would write down the same things...
Egan made an adequate if some-what blank-faced Tom, and his interaction with his mother was always underlaid with a touch of irony on his part that rendered Amanda's exertions even more pitiable. There was, however, a certain want of inflection, a tendency to flatness, in his interludes as narrator and commentator, that never quite left him even in his wrenching conclusion. His expressionlessness and his languid, halting speech recalled--of all things--TV actor Luke Perry...
Some interesting choices were made in the set design: most notably the picture of Tom's father, which was represented by a framed blank. This was perhaps meant to underscore the fact of his absence, or to strengthen the suggestive power of his unseen presence; whatever the reason, it certainly gave one pause. Laura's glass collection did not occupy the central position one might expect, being placed on stage right and partially obscured by the sofa. When Tom, in a fit of anger, hurled his coast at his mother, instead of knocking over the glass ornaments...
...know any better than to say exactly what he's feeling at the moment. He assumes that a statement like "most Koreans don't speak English" is an incisive social commentary and that if you want a woman to open her bathrobe, the best idea is to say point-blank, "Open your robe." All the same, the impish sincerity that drives all of this makes him impossible to ignore...even for Frankie, who seems to find very few things impossible to ignore...