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...Interweave in multi-colour quilt--each indispensable...
...solid foundation on which his eccentrics and lowlifes dance to their own ricochet rhythms. But when it comes to complicating and resolving a plot, Tesich falls back on the conventions of melodrama. Around the soft center of Daryll and Tony's affair, he has woven a crazy quilt of stereotypes-the cold-eyed killer, the silent accomplice, the wealthy parents, the deranged Vietvet. At the climax-a reprise of Equus-resourceful Daryll does what every dumb thriller hero or heroine must do: wanders into an ominous abandoned building. His assailant is even dumber: he is intent on killing Daryll...
...judgments on much of Begin's term in office have turned severe. For all his initially feisty style of governing, many observers feel that he has never really managed to wield effective control over his Cabinet. From the first, it had been a patchwork quilt of first four and then five different parties. Many of Begin's ministers were chosen not so much on the basis of capability as on patronage. Cabinet sessions became notorious for squabbling and name-calling. Hurvitz was the sixth Cabinet minister to resign, setting a new precedent even in a country used...
...jurisdiction, but some scholars believe that the legislators would be exceeding that power if they took away the authority to enforce something as sacred as the First Amendment. If the bill becomes law, prayer cases could still be tried in state courts, but that might produce a crazy quilt of constitutional interpretations...
...program worked just that way, there would be no problem. But Miguel's curriculum is a tiny part of a crazy quilt of local, state and national attempts to cope with the growing number of U.S. schoolchildren, some 3.5 million of them, for whom English is a second language. Now lumped under the heading of bilingual education, these efforts began with special ESL (English as a second language) classes. Later came attempts to teach children in their native tongue for a few years so they would not fall behind while they learned English. In 1968 Congress passed the Bilingual...