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...arithmetic, such as long addition and multiplication, they say; let the children find their own methods for adding and multiplying two-digit numbers, and for larger numbers, let them use calculators. One determined reformer puts it decisively: "It's time to acknowledge that continuing to teach these skills (i.e., pencil-and-paper computational algorithms) to our students is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive and downright dangerous...
...course I want work, vacations, significant people of all kinds, lots of sunshine and several blocks of libraries. But I have learned better than to pencil these in: Besides living by libraries, developing your instinct for choices and taking your chances can be more trustworthy than plans anyone--even you--developed years ago, before you knew what you know...
...artworks weren't created by experienced painters. They are the work of the learning disabled children, ages 9 to 13, who McVearry teaches in Washington, D.C. They have been diagnosed with conditions like attention deficit disorder and Tourette's syndrome. One student with dysgraphia, who cannot even hold a pencil, produced five paintings...
...Annette Lemieux's audience, the wall reappears, in pieces. "Crossing the Rubicon," her newest piece, was featured last month at the Mario Diacono gallery in Boston. In Diacono's presentation, the two canvas panels (with pencil, gesso, pumice and acrylic on the left-hand panel and water-based ink and acrylic on the right) attract the viewer out of a cube of white, bare walls. Similarly, Lemieux's piece lifts her bricks out of a blank space, penciled, then layered with textural media, delivering geometric packages of a single, double or triple artistry...
...exemplary attempt to answer the unanswerable question: Why could she never plug the jagged hole in her heart? Much of her appeal lies in our inability to explain away her bottomless neediness. "You can write down everything Lana Turner ever thought and felt and meant, and then put the pencil down," claimed Garland amour Joe Mankiewicz (the director and screenwriter of All About Eve). "That's it, a closed book. But I don't think anybody's going to close the book on Judy Garland." Not even Gerald Clarke--but he comes close...