Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS musical is much funnier than the diluted 1986 film based on it and about as funny as the B-grade 1960 horror flick it's based on. Little Shop of Horrors is as much a satire on the early 1960s as a gruesome tale of a carnivorous plant...
...life, as are the lives of many children afflicted with cancer, was a profile in courage. Stricken with the disease at age 10, Tom missed most of his sixth-grade year because of intensive chemotherapy but insisted on being promoted with his class. In spite of significant physical limitations, Tom strove to be normal and did more than succeed. He graduated third in his class with high honors from Noble and Greenough High School, where he was editor-in-chief of the campus literary magazine, captained the golf team and won the school's highest award for creative writing...
...anyone dreaming of going back to fluffy omelets and supple floating islands, the most important question about these eggs is: How do they taste? To find out, TIME obtained two dozen large, grade AA Rosemary Farm eggs from a Hughes market in Los Angeles, and I compared them with large, grade AA eggs purchased in Manhattan. On inspection, the California specimens looked a bit larger and had rougher shells with uneven calcium deposits, while the New York shells were perfectly smooth. New York yolks were also a brighter shade of yellow...
...trying to hide him for a while (as if that would affect the people determined to vote against the Democrats because of race), Dukakis should have shared the platform with him, saying the Democratic Party has nothing to hide -- unlike the Republicans, who were smuggling Dan Quayle into grade schools where girls could squeal and boys could ask questions as dumb as the answers. By the time Dukakis began to respond, it was by desperately imitating Bush's first flag rallies and by producing mean copies of the Horton ad, substituting victims of the federal furloughs (something Dukakis had earlier...
They take two classes together, and the grade competition is fierce...