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Although intended to relieve overcrowding, YRE programs are paying some promising extra dividends. At Franklin Elementary, since 15-day vacations take the place of the long summer break, "students seem to retain more," says Susan Chin, a bilingual Chinese/English teacher. A few schools have already implemented YRE strictly for educational reasons. Parry McCluer High in Buena Vista, Va., boasts the state's only year-round program, and a student body that consistently scores above 95% on the state's compulsory competency test...
...Charlton Heston, conversely, performed a miracle of dramatic consolidation in the 1950s and '60s. He became Moses, Ben-Hur, Michelangelo, Andrew Jackson and John the Baptist: everyone this side of God. Heston possessed such brooding gravitas that he could plausibly pass for an abstraction, the decalogue with a strong chin...
...suddenly springing from a chair to strike a military pose, demonstrating a march step, or hunching down like a shortstop. In his office he sang the school song that was sung by his classmates the morning of the bombing. As he did, he rose automatically and snapped to attention, chin tucked, eyes forward...
...woman striding toward the viewer. Her hourglass figure—white with a shimmering black dress on a black background—drips with sensuality reality can never deliver. Next page: she is wrapped in only a sheet, he’s naked and wiping the booze off his chin. The rectangular text blocks say everything we all dream: “I’m staring at a goddess. She’s telling me she wants me. She sounds like she means it.” Two pages later the woman is dead and dirty cops are charging...
LaRue raised his chin higher and slowly rotated his head, sweeping the audience...