Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rainey's Black Bottom, ran more than eight months on Broadway, won the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play and marked the emergence of a substantial new voice for the American theater. A self-taught man who dropped out of school in the ninth grade, Wilson, 41, announced ambitions for a cycle of ten plays meant to reveal black life in each decade of this century. Ma Rainey depicted the self- imposed racial isolation of a 1920s blues singer. His second play to reach Broadway, Fences, which opened last week, portrays the frustration of a former...
...audience. Though Fox owns powerful stations in such major cities as New York and Los Angeles, many of its affiliates are weaker UHF outlets. Fox is projecting an average rating of 6 for its prime-time shows, far less than the 16 or so that is usually a passing grade on the networks...
Joan Olsen's class built a jelly bean White House. Reagan showed he can still fit at a sixth-grade desk, and when he and Bennett joined a computerized exercise in how to make a profit from a lemonade stand, Reagan was good- natured about losing to Bennett...
Several things were evident in Reagan's mission. He is so spooked by the Iran controversy that when he dropped in on Elaine Hassemer's sixth-grade class at Fairview School and eleven-year-old Heather Watson asked a good kid's question about being President and all that stuff, Reagan lumbered into a five-minute Iran defense, the very thing he was trying to get away from...
Also on Air Force One was Joy Underdown, a third-grade teacher from Columbia, who in the early 1960s taught young Ron Reagan, the President's son, when he was a preschooler in Los Angeles. Miss Joy, as the family called her, had been visiting Washington when the long nose of the White House sniffed her out and tempted her to take the power trip. She loved...