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...current system of concentration requirements, core requirements and electives is quite an elegant system. The University decides upon the general education element of your course of study (the Core); you decide upon a component of your education (electives); and the department which you choose to specialize in determines which courses are required for a basic grounding in that discipline...
...perfect bandleader," showed off the drummer in such memorable tunes as "Skin Deep." A seven-minute recording of that piece features more than three minutes of continuous drum solos, both bass drums pounding at top speed. Playing swing, jazz, orchestral and even sacred music for Ellington meant "always an element of surprise," commented Bellson, "It's an experience that you'll never forget...
...interesting and unpredictable. Ralph (Nicholas Turturro) is the most engaging of the guys who get together to play poker, get drunk and engage in the kind of good-natured, explosive joking familiar from other films. His behavior--erratic, violent, tinged with sexual aggression and defensiveness--adds the only true element of surprise and discomfort to the film...
Prominent in the goings on is Hedley, a fierce old man who sells sandwiches made from the chickens he slaughters in the tenement backyard. Wilson's style is down-to-earth realism, but his plays often have a mystical element or character, and almost as often that is where they go wrong. That's the case here. The misanthropic and mysterious Hedley becomes increasingly important to the plot and increasingly difficult to understand, undercutting the narrative drive and distracting the audience's attention from Floyd. At the same time, Floyd's money problems begin to involve several unseen characters. Instead...
...main goal of using these tools is toimprove the teachers that we have and to try tohelp them become better...so we look for a totalpicture and this is one important element," Hallsays. "We take teaching very seriously, bothhiring and improving...