Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intimately familiar with both states of mind, as I have been a waffler and a fence-sitter on this issue for most of my life. I have been pro and con and both "with exceptions." But in the last couple of years I have come to a temporary conclusion: while vengeance is applicable to a discussion on capital punishment, empathy is not. When faced with a John Royster, the desire for vengeance is almost a given, while empathy is misplaced. If you are a decent person, you could never be in his situation; you will never walk that walk. There...
...that struck me the most, however, is called "Mom Overboard!" and portrays a woman who left the fast track at work to stay home with her kids. Fed up with a child who called the sitter "Mama" and surprised by the "double-edged knife" of the maternal instinct, Sera stayed home with her children--and ended up micromanaging their every waking hour...
Rivera's newfound forbearance is the most recent change in daytime television, which is facing increasing pressure, both economic and political, to tone itself down. And indeed, after years of topics like "Get Bigger Breasts or Else" (Rolonda) and "He Slept with the Baby-Sitter" (Sally Jessy Raphael), there is evidence that there may actually be a limit to what audiences will watch. Last week saw the twin cancellations of Gabrielle Carteris' and Charles Perez's shows; already consigned to the scrap heap are the programs of Carnie Wilson and Danny Bonaduce. Of the eight new shows introduced last year...
...chance to sit on EAI's board, "I'm not convinced they know a good deal about how to improve what happens between teachers and kids, and that's pretty basic." A common complaint is Tesseract's reliance on computer drills. "They are using technology as a baby sitter rather than as a teacher or a creative tool," says Linda Buchanan, who took her two oldest children out of the EAI-run Eleanor B. Kennelly School in September. An EAI spokesperson agrees that students use the computers for drills, but insists the approach is effective...
...prosper on his home ground. To do so, he had to rise socially. The portrait painter has to have the same values, and preferably move in the same social sphere, as his clients. He must know the details of dress, possessions, gesture, expression--the whole theater of a sitter's self-representation--from within. Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck and Reynolds had shown that; and Copley, in a smaller domain, knew it too. In 1769 he cemented his place in the upper crust of Massachusetts by marrying Susannah Clarke, daughter of a Tory merchant nabob who represented the East India Company...