Word: slow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother who moves to East Harlem to teach the violin to underprivileged children. Even though the film moves a bit slowly at the beginning where Roberta's personal life is the dominant plot-line, Meryl Streep is (as always) refreshing in her portrayal of Guaspari and compensates for the slow start. Streep's characterization of the man-dependent and recently divorced Navy wife is humorous and real. She is a pathetic mess, crazed by the loss of the only role she's ever known--that of her husband's server. But the quality doesn't stop there. Add about...
...however, understand the frustration that motivates them, that frustration being based in the slow pace of animal liberation movements," Barbarash added...
...depressurization emergency equipment similar to that of an airliner, some experts believe that insidious - rather than sudden - depressurization can confuse and disorient a pilot to the point that he or she would be unable to react. Others insist that the warning systems would have alerted the pilot to a slow leak, making an explosive depressurization a more likely scenario. "All we can say for certain right now," says Hannifin, "is that this incident may well have been unique in aviation history...
...Plainview, Texas. His father abandoned the family when he was a child, and his mother should have been on welfare, but it "never occurred to her," Lewis writes. Clark, a classic malcontent, enlisted in the Navy after high school, was misevaluated and put in a class for especially slow delinquents, shipped out to sea, came back and was retested, this time scoring so well in math that it baffled his instructors...
...classroom and yet admits she is constrained when it comes to standards and expectations, like assigning homework. She guesses about 15% in her class actually do it, which means she can't base Tuesday's class on readings that no one did the night before. Bright kids get bored; slow kids get lost; the kids in the middle muddle through. Her colleague Bob Hutcheson puts it this way: "I wonder if among their peers, there isn't a certain norm of mediocrity. And if they shoot for the middle, they'll always settle for less...