Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...achievement of Ken Burns' that his latest documentary for PBS helps rescue two heroic figures from the limbo of sixth-grade history. (Undaunted Courage, the recent bestseller by Stephen Ambrose, had already begun their rehabilitation, and Ambrose appears in the film.) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, which will be shown in two-hour segments on Nov. 4 and 5, smoothly relates the story of the first expedition to cross the West and reach the Pacific Ocean. The familiar Burns techniques are here--actors reading letters, a cast of commentators, panning shots of historical images--but they...
Although as a team Harvard finished sixth out of nine teams--beating only MIT, Boston University and Bowdoin--Erik Bernstein and his crew, Chris Lange were winners in the B-Division...
Based on last year's experience, the school district decided to expand the program to the sixth and eighth grades this year, using a $500,000 grant from the State of California--one of three handed out for single-sex programs. In doing so, it hopes to confirm the hypothesis that students in the single-sex classes do better than their coed peers...
...Elaine Lewinnek's all-girl sixth-grade social-studies class, the Venus of Willendorf's bulging stomach and hips were a hot topic. A picture of the fertility goddess from 25,000 B.C. stimulated a lively discussion about how ideals of feminine beauty have changed through the centuries. Then a boy came into the classroom to collect attendance slips. "Stop! Stop! There's a boy in the room!" several girls shouted. The conversation halted until he left...
...good time to be a McCartney. First, STELLA MCCARTNEY's debut show for the French fashion house Chloe drew kind reviews, and not just from Mom and Dad, who led the standing ovation when Stella came out to take her bows. They must have had a parental sixth sense. "The part that terrified me most was just walking down that runway," said Stella afterward. Critics described McCartney's lacy, feminine clothes as a "happy hodgepodge" of pieces with "gentle flourishes"--not unlike what some generous souls say about PAUL MCCARTNEY's musical compositions. His latest, Standing Stone, took four years...