Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nights every autumn, high school football mania sweeps across Texas, consuming everything in its path. But unlike Northern fans, Texans never streak for the restrooms and hot-dog stands at halftime. They stay to see the marching band and, especially, to watch the high-strutting twirlers showing off flash, skill and baby fat in their tight, sequined costumes...
...Jeremy Bentham; or that Alexander the Great got from a tutor named Aristotle. But even those who reject Holt's radical solution find it hard to disagree with his view that administrative gobbledygook too often comes between children and their desire to learn. "People have been transmitting knowledge and skills for centuries," notes Holt. "Not everyone does it equally well, but it is an accessible skill...
...true incident in 19th century Australian history, in which some schoolgirls disappear from an outback outing, never to be seen again, and with no satisfactory explanation for their disappearance ever discovered. Weir creates an oppressive atmosphere, a compound of heat, isolation and sexual innuendo that is quite singular. His skill at wringing terror out of emptiness and silence, his sense of the fragility and smallness of Europeans cast up in the vastness of the Australian landscape, give the film a distinction that could well bring him an international reputation. Along with Noyce and talented Realist Fred Schepisi (The Devil...
Nothing I saw the troops or their officers do during the time I served in Viet Nam could not have been done by a 100-lb. female. The bleeding is the only hard part, and it requires no special skill...
Though the Yalies struggled gamely, The Crimson's well-refreshed team overpowered their opponents with a dazzling display of strategy and skill. Francis J. Connolly '79, the lame duck quarterback, scrambled 95 yards for a magnificent touchdown to put The Crimson in the lead...