Word: cribs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Called on by the teacher, the President recited Shakespeare to a summer-school class in Farragut, Tenn. "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury," he read from a crib sheet, "signifying nothing." It was all part of Ronald Reagan's continuing crusade for stricter standards in the nation's schools, on a swing through Tennessee and New Mexico last week. In turn, his prospective Democratic rivals for the presidency charged that his speeches were mere sound and fury. "Everywhere he goes he's now a friend of education," scoffed Walter Mondale...
...review sections, they caution against spending too much time going over old crib sheets and blue books. The material, they say is so volatile that the questions may stay the same, but the answers change. A similar point applies to South African divestiture, whose viability and urgency has been dramatized by events both in and outside the University in the past few years. Which is why President Bok, in simply rehashing his 1979 open letter on the subject, fails to adequately justify his refusal to sell Harvard's tainted stock...
...dieter who became popcorn-addicted in 1980 was Actor Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy), who found in popcorn the answer to his craving for snacks. Klugman is spreading the good munch via Jack's Corn Crib, a planned chain that has already opened two outlets in Manhattan and expects to have at least 100 franchised cornporiums in business by 1985. Klugman uses no salt in his recipes and a maximum of 5% sugar. He has brisk competition in New York from Popcorn Paradise, which is adopting a movie-palace lobby decor on a moderate scale...
...rock-'n'-roll singer. Last fall she stood up and sang a tune or two at a Xenon party ("People begged me not to go on"), but this will be a full-fledged set, a "Rock-'n'-Roll Christmas Concert." Cornelia even has a crib sheet written out in pencil and propped up near the microphone in case she forgets how to sing her rock rendition of Frosty the Snowman: "Thumpety thump-thump, thum-pety thump-thump, there goes Frosty...
...inculcate the rudiments of spelling and calculating. A record of sorts may have been set by Corey Schou, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando: he rigged up a home computer so his five-month-old daughter could operate it by pressing buttons in her crib and changing the designs on a nearby screen. Says the proud papa: "Basically, it's an electronic kaleidoscope, another diversion, another learning device...