Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American schoolroom has traditionally provided a hopeful glimpse of the nation's future, and some people still imagine it to be a Rockwellian scene of mostly pink-cheeked children spelling out the adventures of Dick and Jane. But come for a moment to the playground of the Franklin elementary school in + Oakland, where black girls like to chant their jump-rope numbers in Chinese. "See you manana," one student shouts with a Vietnamese accent. "Ciao!" cries another, who has never been anywhere near Italy. And let it be noted that the boy who won the National Spelling Bee in Washington...
...eyes in rivers of blood. With what zeal did Bosch and Bruegel similarly portray malefactors being torn at by giant birds or skeletons. Yet the avenger himself was traditionally punished too. Orestes goes mad; Hamlet dies of poison; Captain Ahab ends in a tangle of rope dragged by Moby Dick. Revenge is both necessary and forbidden...
DIED. Chester Gould, 84, cartoonist who in 1931 created Dick Tracy, the hawk- nosed dean of comic-strip detectives, and chronicled his adventures, syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, until retiring in 1977; in Woodstock, Ill. Gould drew his original inspiration from Prohibition-era gangsterism and the new folk heroes of law enforcement: J. Edgar Hoover's G-men. Gould's wonderfully nasty, physiognomically named villains--Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, the Brow--never got the better of his snap-brimmed hero...
...Mankiewicz) jumbles modern slang with chivalric sentiment; and Director Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman) is no spellbinder of medieval melancholy. "I believe in miracles," says the evil bishop (John Wood) who laid on the curse. "It's part of my job." Making miracles is Donner's job--and, Dick, you're fired...
...ratio of 3 to 2 would be more in line with overall party representation in the chamber. Last week that resentment flared over the contested Indiana seat that committee Democrats declared belonged to Frank McCloskey, one of their own. Even usually calm and gentle souls like Wyoming's Dick Cheney declared war and kept the House sleepless and fuming through Monday night and in parliamentary uproar all week long...