Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel, for the Palestinians?" Our cover story this week, written by Associate Editor Spencer Davidson, assesses those questions. Along with it is the interview that Neff and Halevy had with Menachem Begin after his party's victory. Neff thought the security man guarding Begin's apartment looked familiar, and, says Neff, "he was. It was the same guard we had encountered a few days before at the office of Shimon Peres. The torch had passed. It was a new story...
Controversial Clause. Equally troublesome is the question of how traditionally trained teachers, who lack any background in special education, will deal with severely handicapped children placed in their classes. Conversely, there is the problem of how the handicapped children, taken from their familiar protected environment, will be affected. Says Connor: "I'm sure that one-third will flower, but another one-third may do just about the same, and the last third may actually suffer without adequate back-up services...
...heavy load home from Father's Six one night and stopped in front of Carlo's door. "Fuckin' wonk, I'm gonna major in psychology now, so there," he announced. The opening salvo fired, he and everyone else whiled away the next four months by greeting Carlo with a familiar, but unusually inspired, assortment of applie-pie beds, shaving-cream beds, cold-pizza beds, and all the other ingenious tortures you can learn in six years of prep school. Carlo finally got the message. Chastened, he carted his sopcial pretensions back into his room and spent the rest...
...Mather House that ended the discussion. Lou had fought in World War II, and even if his side lost he still had a good eye for bunkers and pillboxes. The concrete flanks of firebase Mather looked painfully familiar, especially for the kind of money he was shelling out for the kid. Not a bell tower...
...little over two hours, Durang recomposes America's entire cinematic history, from Orphans of the Storm to The Exorcist, including everything in between, from the screwball comedies of the '30s to Elizabeth Taylor screaming at Richard Burton in the '60s. In Durang's hands the familiar images always take an unexpected turn, however, and he proves that there is nothing so funny as the cliche of a different color...