Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS SUPERFICIAL attitude toward the impact of violence carries through into the structure of the entire film. De Palma introduces humorous moments in order, he says, to make the violence more bearable. These moments he handles effectively (in fact, the TV quiz show parody that opens the film and the only slightly macabre humor throughout are very funny: this is De Palma being himself), but these moments are also evasive. The only reason they are so essential in the first place is that the violence in the film is not set in a context of characterization. The acts of characters...
Allison also said that the frequent quizzes offer a valuable feedback mechanism to weekly sections. "If my students all fail a quiz testing a major concept, I have an indication of who is really at fault," she said...
...Quiz. The possibility of White House connections to the Watergate scandal was obvious the moment the names of the arrested men were revealed. They included G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt Jr., both of whom had worked for the White House before transferring to the Nixon re-election committee. FBI agents did quiz 14 White House officials, but the questioning took place only in the presence of John W. Dean III, a White House attorney asked by the President to conduct an "inhouse" investigation of the case. It should have been apparent to Gray that the presence...
...classroom remained his focal point for 39 years. Among the students influenced by his gentle Socratic discourses were Novelist Jack Kerouac and Poets Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg and John Berryman. Though stunned by the 1959 scandal involving his son Charles, who had been fed answers on the TV quiz show Twenty-One, Van Doren remained a near-legendary figure whose guidance was eagerly sought by Columbia's pupils and graduates...
...yearbook editors. George and Eleanor nursed their courtship along over sodas at the Tiger's Lair in the basement of the main hall. George remembers that things really got serious when both he and Eleanor tied for top grades on TIME'S annual current-events quiz. "The professor gave us the test," recalls McGovern. "We both got a 98 out of a possible score of 100. It kind of impressed me. I made a mental note to get to know her better...