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...schools - primary and secondary, public and private - is that tension between teachers and parents is rising. According to teachers, parents see a world that's getting faster, more complicated and less forgiving, and figure their children's best chance of making it out there is to shine, from kindergarten onward, in everything they do. These high expectations can fuse with the view that no setback is ever just bad luck: it's always somebody's fault - though never their own, nor their child's. While parents will accept human frailty in other areas of life, says New South Wales Primary...
...whiter whites, and have a nice day, O.K.? No other people in history have placed a greater premium on sheer, sunny perkiness than mid-20th century Americans. In the objects they buy and make, that post-Puritan inclination has been expressed by splurges of color. From the jazz age onward, pop culture has gone polychrome in a big way: color, brilliant and various, has been almost obligatory in all things, from clothing to kitchen appliances to automobiles to furniture. What was not cotton-candy pink was smile-button yellow; if not sunset orange, then avocado green. Black, however, remained stricken...
...branches of nearby trees. Some ran for the city's highest ground, its hilltop cemetery, or found other spots above the flood crest. Survivors later testified that the first wave of mud to hit the town was ice cold, like the mountain snows that spawned it. As it rolled onward, the mud carried along more and more of the inner fire of Nevado del Ruiz, until finally the cascade was smoking...
Michelle Peluso ONWARD AND UPWARD
...plot progresses ridiculously onward from there, making politically incorrect jokes at the expense of just about everyone, allowing this movie to work both as a mindlessly funny comedy and a clever satire of our current state of affairs. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America pokes viciously at the liberals for being too contemplatively passive and relentlessly ridicules conservatives for being crazed, bloodthirsty gunslingers...