Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school board members are proud of their tough stand. Says Norman Murray, the father of seven children and a former FBI man: "I don't have a corner on the world's wisdom, but I think we were right." He plans to spend much of the money that the district makes from teacher and union fines on remedial pro grams in basic skills...
...Levittown tries to recover from the strike, FOR SALE signs stand next to pumpkins in front of many houses. The Caponi house in the Wantagh neighborhood is one of them. Although the Caponis had decided to sell before the teacher trouble, they are even more eager to move...
...Indians scene, complete with Gunsmoke music and Gandalf as John Wayne leading the rescue. Maybe that's all the book is, essentially, but Bakshi seems to exaggerate that which is formulaic and even trite in the books. Moreover, his animations are wooden and lazy -- groups of figures will stand without moving while a battle rages around them. The synch of the lips and sound falters and only for brief moments can you forget that this thing is a cartoon. Bakshi superimposes animation and live footage, washing the whole scene in psychedelic colors, negative images and painted color...
...aren't making any money around here. We've got to husband our resources; there will have to be some retrenchment as already indicated by our moving out of Europe. [At home] we have to be more selective than the other guys. We can't stand the luxury of play periods. The bigger you are, the easier you can say: "Let's do a Corvette, boys. We won't make money for ten years, but so what? It's an image builder." We don't have any money to build image...
...stop twice in a lengthy George Rochberg quartet to replace broken strings. As he turned the last page, Violinist Sokol breathed a sigh of relief?and his music fluttered to the floor. When Cellist Norman Fischer bent down to retrieve it, he knocked over Second Violinist Andrew Jennings' stand. Then Fischer's own crashed over. It was a case of concerted collapse...