Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days before the shooting spree, Kristofor Hans, a 14-year-old student, walked into his high school in Lewistown, Mont. (pop. 6,900), shot dead a teacher and wounded a vice principal and two students. Friends said the boy was furious over a failing grade...
...girl who wrote me and told me that I was totally wrong about Duluth. She's in seventh grade, has been playing the violin since she was a toddler and was skipping the Saturday night hockey game to go to a dance. Maybe her first...
Measured against such a timeless classic, then, Irangate definitely rates as a grade B remake. Ronald Reagan, who for years has specialized as a bumbling Jerry Lewis type--witness his classic, What Disinformation Campaign?--simply does not exhibit the kind of depth necessary for the role of a mischievous villain...
Overall, Irangate disappoints, despite production costs of at least $40 million. No matter how big the budget, a B-grade actor is still just that. Let's hope this squalid drama closes soon...
Moore, who has played football since the seventh grade, did not choose his college for its football program. He left his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee 10 years ago to attend the College of Wooster in Ohio, not exactly a national football powerhouse. And neither was Moore, who began with a modest view of his own athletic prowess...