Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find it on the Net, where millions of youths log on to psychedelic bulletin boards. Read through the public conversations, and you'll start to wonder how many young psychedelic chemists conversant in biotechnology, comparative religion and visionary literature are hiding in the American heartland. Teenagers make up a near majority of the audience for DisInformation www.disinfo.com) a site that purveys antimainstream media politics and conspiracy theory to hundreds of thousands with a humor and skepticism that make Paul Krassner's Realist seem earnest and tame...
...York City: the retrospective of Jackson Pollock's work, organized by MOMA's senior curator of painting and sculpture, Kirk Varnedoe, in tandem with co-curator Pepe Carmel. The two have done a brilliant job, producing, along the way, one of the very few museum catalogs that can be read for pleasure as well as instruction. Amazingly enough, the American audience hasn't had a chance to see Pollock's work whole in more than 30 years. The last comprehensive show in a U.S. museum was in 1967, also at MOMA. (A limited retrospective was mounted in Paris...
...news been larded with stories that speak eloquently and amusingly of our cultural obsession with youth and newness? Well, to some extent, it probably is just me: I happen to be turning 40 this week, so I'm a little sensitive. But I swear, every paper I read, every newscast I watch, all I'm hearing...
...only person who can make a better student is that student. The students you profiled have positive attitudes, initiative and motivation; they expect to work hard on their own. Consequently, the effort they put in produces positive results. My sons see their parents read. They were read to at home. We've encouraged and praised the genuine efforts they've made. But the bottom line for my sons is that until something ignites them from within, they are content to do as little work as possible. SANDY SIMONSON Jacksonville...
Parents should do these things to make their child a better student: turn off the television. Fill every room (yes, even the bathroom) with books, magazines and newspapers. Play, read, cook, read, travel, read and then read some more with your kids. If reading becomes the primary form of entertainment in the home, youngsters will turn to books. My best moments were when the kids were naughty and told they could not read. Ahh, the pleasure of catching them "sneak reading." Killing our television was the best thing we ever did. BRIDGET BOYLE Corona, Calif...