Word: henly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American education, too. Their school, located in a church in the farming village of Barbiana, was started for children who have failed or who have nearly failed public school. Because the parents of girls from town believe that a woman can live her life with the brains of a hen, only boys attend the school, which the authors acknowledge as "racism." However, like Herbert Kohl's sixth grade children in Harlem or the children in George Dennison's First Street School in lower Manhattan, the students improve when instructional flexibility, Individual encouragement, and a stress on group development are substituted...
...caper movie, its characters were so overheated that the action verged on black comedy, but they were recognizable enough to retain sympathy when necessary: Kubrick here walked a much tighter rope than the one he toes in Clockwork, Sterling Hayden played a savvy gunny, Elisha Cook the pathetic hen-pecked cashier who cracks--and kills the rest of Hayden's crew. A grotesquely muscled bit-player voiced the director's point-of-view (in an incoherent Russian accent): the crook is an attractive figure when the values of traditional heroes are in question, but his actual motives are mundane...
Whether or not he can do this is another matter. Financial burdens, another student upheaval, or pressure from outside the University could easily subvert his intentions. He could end up five years from now repeating the sentiment Archibald Cox voiced recently that "you get to feel like a mother hen about this place after so many mornings waling brought the Yard at three o'clock, and you just want to pay back some of the debt...
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...here, now successful but no less insecure. With the obsessive concern of the nouveau riche he pesters his wife about her clothes, about party invitations that she must send out, about choosing the proper wine, and so forth. Tina is being pecked not by a rooster but by a hen. Her lover, on the other hand, comes on as a virile, aggressive bastard with a sexy smile-and you know that if her husband were to find about the affair he would probably say, "Why Tina! I'm surprised at you; don't I give you all you need...