Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge poster of her father. At times, Romina seems dazed by all the hoopla, as if she were trying to remember where she mislaid her childhood. Then, the little girl in her peeping through, she sighs: "I would like to play a fairy because it can make things happen, and it's pure and innocent and beautiful the way people basically...
...Nothing really does happen. The come-ons are put-ons; there is no smoking or drinking onscreen, and the promised love play is usually limited to an innocent kiss behind a surfboard. Frankie Avalon and ex-TV Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, the romantic leads who trip through their scenes with mindless abandon, come across as the Ma and Pa Kettle of the teeny-bopper set. Explains an A.I.P. market researcher: "Kids realize that sex play exists, but they don't like movies to get involved with it. A boy watching a movie and sitting next to a girl with whom...
...chilly, gray Friday in Houston, and Clay had been inside the induction center for hours. Newspapermen and assorted fans were milling around. Then the colonel came out and told them what they had known would happen all along. Cassius Clay had refused to step forward when his name was called. He had refused to enter the United States Army...
...after the third lesson has come and gone and he is still reading at 400 words a minute? "You have to believe deep down that you're going to get it. You must have faith that sometime this week you will be doing your homework and suddenly it will happen. You must be faithful to the method." This is usually the standard line used by the Reading Dynamics teachers. The "faith" is now "being faithful;" it is used as a club to prevent people from dropping the course...
...often happens that a student will push himself along at 2000 words per minute on the final test, following instructions and confident that his low score on the following comprehension test will prove what he is sure of-that he has not learned to read dynamically. Then a strange thing will happen. He will score well on the comprehension test in spite of understanding little of what he read...