Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That a new hairdo, Tanya?" he asks one girl. "I like it. You're looking like a stone fox." "Give me some," he says, dipping his hand into an open bag of corn chips that an admiring boy is holding. "I need the quick energy." Walking through the senior lounge, the principal greets Denise Baker, who has just won a $20,000 scholarship, with some approving Clark doggerel: "If you can conceive it, you can believe it, and you can achieve it." Denise loves it. In fact virtually all the kids seem to revel in the style...
...third from families on welfare -- was then crawling with pushers, muggers and just about every other species of juvenile thug. Pot smoke blew out of broken windows. Graffiti marred the walls. Doors were damaged. Teachers were afraid to come to work. Clark, a former Army Reserve sergeant, took quick action. He chained doors against pushers and threatened any strays that might leak through with a baseball bat, a 36-in. Willie Mays Big Stick that still rests in a corner of his office. Bellowing through the bullhorn and the school's p.a. system, he banned loitering, mandated keep...
...once troubled Lewenberg middle school into a nationally recognized center of excellence. "Clark's use of force may rid the school of unwanted students," he notes, "but he also may be losing kids who might succeed." Others claim Clark's autocratic approach to discipline suggests that there is a quick solution to complex problems. "He seeds the myth that all we have to do is stop kids from knifing each other," snaps Deborah Meier, who won a $335,000 MacArthur Genius grant for her inspired supervision of Harlem's Central Park East schools...
...half a million miles a year, inspiring the troops and scouting new acquisitions. The guy never rests, and when he does, he pays for it. Three weeks ago, while on a rare vacation with his wife and two children in Antigua, Drabinsky broke his arm, "totally, right through." A quick bone grafting and plate insertion, and he was back in business. "It hurts, sure," he says, "but I like...
...traffic situation is equally strange. On any given day, you might see daredevil stunt drivers wearing hats and smoking cigars gunning their Cadillac Eldorados to speeds of 35 M.P.H. and beyond. You hear lots of horn-honking; the younger residents, their fuses cut to the quick, are simply venting their frustration and rage at the latest senile driving snafu. These people must nurse elaborate fantasies involving grey heads and sinister implements of torture...