Word: grading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WORST movie of all is the title piece, "Amazon Women on the Moon," a B-grade 1950s sci-fi disaster, whose plot can be deduced from its title. The film's accurate stone-age special effects (rockets hanging from wires, etc.) and sound problems are surpassed in ludicrousness only by the film's overt jingoism, sexism, materialism and xenophobia...
...FIRST day I visited some people, and learned about elementary school classmates. My first-grade homeroom has produced a certified color consultant, a PGA golf-tour hopeful, two or three nursing-school students, a future doctor, the homecoming queen and king, the captain of the high school varsity basketball team, and the president of the Future Homemakers of America (who happens to be male...
Later that day I visited a tremendous first-grade dancer. She has parlayed her talents into a place on the baton-twirling squad on the University of Mississippi marching band...
Bork's supporters generally felt that he helped his case by coming across as open to change. Contended Bruce Fein, a legal scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation: "Open-minded people frequently change their minds. Constitutional jurisprudence is not first-grade arithmetic...
...well." Cosby starred in class plays and displayed both a talent for mimicry and a prodigious memory. He scored high on intelligence tests, and was assigned to a high school for gifted students. There he enjoyed clowning and playing football, but his classwork suffered. He flunked the tenth grade twice, returned to a regular school, flunked again and finally dropped out. His mother was bitterly disappointed. But even in failure, she says, "Bill was determined to be somebody...