Word: retreader
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). George Segal, Arthur Hill, Teresa Wright and Yvette Mimieux in a TV retread of The Desperate Hours...
Oddly enough, Rock finds little happiness in Happenings, but he does develop a thirst. One drink leads to another, and the aftertaste leads him back to Scarsdale. Ultimately he learns that it takes more than a surgical retread to renew the inner man, which was perhaps obvious all along...
...Laslo Benedek, The Wild One was a sociological shocker that in the main effectively described a sick subculture. Directed by Roger Corman, a cut-rate master of the macabre who seems to work better with spiders than he does with actors, The Wild Angels is a sleazily synthetic retread that will probably take a long skid through U.S. grind houses. However, the film may well make a mark in Europe...
...team-a necessity with the Celtics, who as champions always have last pick in the N.B.A. draft. "You take a washed-up guy," he says, "and if you instill his pride again and create desire, you can squeeze a good year or two out of him." A typical Auerbach retread: Forward Don Nelson, who scored 2.4 points per game for the Los Angeles Lakers last year. With the Celtics, Nelson is averaging 10 points per game...
...council sees it, key solutions include solid sabbaticals to retread teachers, summer institutes that really teach English (many just skimp it), helpful supervision by master English teachers rather than bureaucratic administrators. The majority of high school teachers, says the council, "have never had an opportunity to confer with a college professor of English or English education or with a special English supervisor." Without reforms, warns James R. Squire, the council's executive secretary, English classes across the country will go on wallowing in "dull, lifeless teaching" devoid of "one iota of excitement...