Word: scarlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school chef network that many younger chefs wish to move away from. In their quest to be recognized as hip, a number of new chefs on the block have recently shifted their fashion tastes to encompass trendier pant patterns. The red hot chili peppers, rainbow fish and scarlet lobsters dotting the legs of these fledglings add a certain air of panache to the chefs' images as well as their cuisine...
...kids in tow, cheering their students on and mixing and meddling with their lives in the bleachers. Walk down the halls, stop and listen in, and you can hear those moments of collision and discovery. "Some of you were complaining that the questions I was asking about The Scarlet Letter were making your brains hurt," says David Mendelson to his honors English class. "That is the goal." He is trying to take them to the point where their heads throb, because that is the point at which they learn. "If the question is easy, I have failed." Maybe high school...
...topic is Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Even the avid students in this honors U.S. studies class are drowsy. They have just watched a jolly but interminable student video about the colonial South, and English teacher David Mendelson sympathizes with their plight: "I feel like my brain has been sandpapered...
...there Lieserl's life was poignantly short. According to Zackheim, the little girl died at 21 months after a bout of scarlet fever. Zackheim even gives the date of her death--Sept. 15, 1903, when Vojvodina was darkened by a solar eclipse, the sort of celestial ballet between sun and moon that would later provide the world with the first proof of the correctness of Einstein's radical new ideas about time and space...
...women as possible Lieserls, including a melodramatic Berlin actress who claimed in the 1930s to be Einstein's daughter. Zackheim's final conclusions, however--based on little more than inferences from a cryptic 1903 letter from Einstein to Mileva ("I am very sorry about what has happened to Lieserl. Scarlet fever often leaves some lasting trace behind") and vague comments about idiocy in the family by an elderly Maric descendant in the Serbian town of Kac--remain conjectural at best...