Word: karens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first in the nation to establish a sexual-harassment policy. In the language of the university's judicial code, "rape" doesn't officially exist. School administrators call it "sexual harassment" or "advances without sanction." But those phrases don't seem very useful when Julie, Amy, Kristene and Karen try to describe what happened to them...
Moreover, the most skilled teachers seem to be reaching a critical juncture: they know where they want to go with the technology, but they cannot get there without fundamental changes in the way their educational time is organized. Karen Sheingold, co-director of the Bank Street study, explains, "If your students are collecting information about their community for a complicated local-history project and are using the computer to organize and present it, they can't work in 40-minute periods. By the time they sit down and start getting their thoughts together, it's time to move...
Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...
Haynes dines on controversy. His previous picture was the rough, wickedly funny Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a sort of Valley of the Dolls (but with real dolls) that was suppressed by the Carpenter family. Poison is a more somber affair. The shock comes not from any graphic sex, for there is none, but from the pristine virtuosity of Haynes' craft. In three interlocking stories inspired by Jean Genet, this homoerotic Intolerance details the . toxicity of prejudice, fear and disease, as played out in a tumid hothouse of forbidden sexual longing. A scientist who turns leprous when he drinks...
Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...