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Maybe that explains why I never could manage to read those seven books and chose instead to put down fake titles on the sheet...
Casually attired in khaki trousers and a gray polo shirt, math teacher Tony Dula scribbles an algebra problem on a sheet of clear plastic and, using an overhead projector, throws the image on the blackboard for his class of 10th- graders. "O.K.," he says, "you have two minutes." Heads bow and sneakered feet tap softly on the floor. Suddenly a student in the second row breaks the silence. "Oooooh! I found it!," she cries. "I feel good!" Another girl waves her hand wildly from the back of the room. "Mr. Dula! Mr. Dula...
...painter's form, the pigment is both concrete and extremely sensitive. De Stael could give a sheet of paint, applied with a wide palette knife, the receptivity and sheen of skin, inserting gradations of color so subtle that they have no hope of showing up in reproduction. In Nice, 1954, with the simplest means -- a few bars of awning-green and two shockingly vivid shapes, a red and a black, that may signify deck chairs or possibly buildings -- he could put you right in the middle of a Mediterranean summer. Still, the punch of the image, which would otherwise...
...then, standing in front of a bulletin board on Dunster St., that I realized that none of that painful labor would be necessary. Posted on a sheet of light blue paper was the answer to my summer job woes...
Ducc's prison diagnostic-evaluation sheet notes that he suffers "low self- esteem." Ducc says that belonging to a gang is about obtaining "respect." Respect and disrespect make up the reigning ethos of the streets. Kids seek respect by joining a gang, then prove themselves by punishing someone outside the gang for an act of disrespect. In Los Angeles you "dis" a rival gang by uttering an irreverent nickname; "cheese toes" is a slang word for Crips and a sure way of provoking a gun battle...