Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hirsch maintains that reading skills are limited to topics the reader has encountered, so specific information must be drilled into students' heads. He uses the example of standardized reading comprehension tests: "If a young boy knows a lot about snakes but very little about lakes, he will make a good score on a passage about snakes, but a less good score on a passage about lakes....If you know about lakes and snakes, and rakes and cakes, you will have [a high] reading ability...
...Somerville Theatre has long been favored by community residents seeking an alternative to first-run movie houses. Most nights, the cinema shows an eclectic assortment of double features, ranging from "Last Tango in Paris" and "Betty Blue" to "Buckaroo Banzai" and "A Boy...
Gertrude Lewis spent her days driving a city bus and, every other Saturday, volunteering at the Albany home. "I saw this boy with these beautiful eyes," she recalls, "just looking up and smiling." She was 47 years old, had never married, never had a family of her own. She decided then and there she would become a foster mother...
Still, most folks are proud of their local boy who made good. They are convinced Kennebunkport will survive this latest act of God. "This too shall pass," intones Barbara Rencurrel with abundant Yankee stoicism. In the meantime, says Carl Bartlett, "it's like being in the stands at the circus...
...surefire moneymaker on the current musical scene is Andrew Lloyd Webber, the British composer whose shows have been about felines, religious figures and monsters -- anything but old-fashioned romance, conventional boy meets girl. In hopes of matching Webber's profits, today's producers imitate his preference for way-out concepts, the loopier the better. Part of the reason such masters as Lerner and Loewe made it look so easy is that they did not feel compelled to contort themselves and their stories. Maybe they knew something worth rediscovering...