Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Patrice Edwards teaches second grade at Beecher Elementary, a public school in New Haven, Conn., where most of her students wear maroon-plaid uniforms. That's the first indication that something unusual is going on. Here's the second: on a recent September morning, as the 25 children in Edwards' class sat cross-legged on the floor passing a big blue ball around, they whispered compliments to each other. "You're a nice speller." "You've got pretty handwriting." "You are a good artist." A soothing calm settled in the room. For the moment, traditional academics were nowhere...
Laughing girls file through the decorated hallways in plaid skirts and deep-colored blazers or sweaters. Administrators stop to say hello to the girls and know them all by name-and the girls respond in kind, referring to the principal by her first name as well. In the classrooms, teacher and students sit around in small circles or at work stations, on couches or on floor rugs, discussing how biology should be defined or looking up different words with the root "anthro" in the dictionary to try to find their meanings. Every classroom has a small computer center where girls...
...third-floor Rec. Room early for my Friday afternoon appointment, just as the club's introductory meeting is letting out and a practice is starting up. Rawson, a squat, bald man is standing in a corner, instructing one of his boxers. Wearing a collared shirt and ancient plaid pants, he seems to have forgotten how men his age are supposed to act: he throws a jab at the young boxer from time to time and he's bouncing on the balls of his feet, weaving somewhat nimbly from side to side...
...times, the shorts directors got composers to cavort onscreen. Some look embarrassed--check out Richard Rodgers' stiff delivery and Lorenz Hart's plaid jammies in Makers of Melody--while others are to the camera born. In the 1934 Hollywood Rhythm, tubby lyricist Mack Gordon (Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?) is fast with a quip and light on his feet; doing a Latin dance, he irrepressibly shouts, "I got rumbatism...
...addition to lunch with Jackson, big-ticket items included lunch with former senator Bob Dole, lunch with former Clinton adviser George Stephanopolous, a weekend on Martha's Vineyard and a two-week vacation in Turkey. A plaid shirt signed by Lamar Alexander went...