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...soundbite-ready. They don't come with talking points, graphics and a prepackaged video B-roll. But TV is about now: Television that patiently waits for resolution and reasoned selection of detail is called "photography." So when the thick decision pamphlets came down the SCOTUS steps, it was speed-readin' time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Short Memory of TV Pundits | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

...recommendation that "teachers should be encouraged to have guns" earned the animus of 52: "When I read that, I had to scream." "Bochard's pathological relationship with her weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four Rs: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic and 'rmed response." "Instead of sending a disruptive student to the principal, the teacher could just shoot him in the kneecap." "Hey, Lisa! Get rid of the gun, get help and get a life!" CHOICE EPITHETS FOR TIME'S STAFF FROM THE TICKED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...think the people who wrote this stuff downwere dealing with a lot of the same stuff we'redealing with now," says Heller earnestly. "If readin appropriate ways some of these texts can beread in a way that is sensitive and humanistic butwhich is also true to the tradition andintellectually honest...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: A Future Rabbi A voids Solemnity | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...offered $5,000 grants to each of five schools to start up the programs which will offer students up to six credits a term to work as tutors in schools and community agencies. Me think its a very good idea. Our school kids need a little help with their "readin 'n' writin' 'n' 'rithmetic" too. The Story got me to thinkin' about all the money problems 'n' red tape the kids up in Phillip Brooks House (Harvard) have to go through each spring. They always get caught between Harvard College 'n' City of Cambridge with their budget. Always "sweatin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Readin' 'n' Writin' | 9/22/1987 | See Source »

...pick up the paper right, I sees a picture of the crowd at the arena. What a picture! Then I gives the article to my roommate to read to me. He starts readin' right, and its a story about us, the Hockey Team. Man sum guy was real, real ticked...

Author: By Grant Blair, | Title: Don't Point the Finger at Me | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

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