Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When there's controversy, it makes newspaper articles," Self said, "but in the long run, I think it will be good for the area...
...period authenticities and relentlessly violent plot practically guarantee Billy Bathgate a sale to the movies. Good luck to all concerned, for the novel's greatest strength resides in its least cinematic feature. Billy's language -- breathy, breakneck, massing phrases into great cumulus sentences that rumble with coming rough weather -- is totally unlike the short, syncopated rhythms of Ragtime. At first, readers may wonder how this young, confessed truant has run across terms like "dissynchronously" or where he picked up the poetic skills to describe a waterfall: "At the very bottom there hovered a perpetually shimmering rainbow as if not water...
...literally could be done in three hours." Even St. Paul might be impressed. If the telephone had existed in his day, he could have evangelized from his living room instead of wandering over land and sea for two decades. Just imagine the sales pitch: "How are you this evening? Good. My name is Paul, and I'm calling from Antioch. Some of your neighbors are starting up a new church over there in Corinth...
First the good news: American students have improved their basic reading, writing, math and science skills over the past 20 years. Now the bad news: few can apply that knowledge in ways that would help them excel in college, get a job or even perform the necessary tasks of daily life. "We have a solid foundation of basic skills," says Archie Lapointe, executive director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N.A.E.P.), which last week issued a far-ranging study on the subject. "But there is stagnation as far as high- order thinking skills are concerned...
...Procedures Act, which gives the Attorney General the power to keep secret documents out of trials, is unconstitutional because it deprived North of a fair trial. If it took an inordinate amount of time to get the North trial started, bringing the proceedings to a conclusion may take a good deal longer still...