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...Edison Project would organize instruction around teams consisting of approximately four teachers per 90 students, Tracey said. Teams would be grouped together for two to four years. Under this plan, a common group of students would work for an extended period of time with the same peer group and teachers, he said...
McGriff and Tracey stressed that under the Edison Project, teachers would make more administrative decisions that affect their pupils. The Edison Program would thus direct less money to school bureaucracy, Tracey said...
Other facets of the Edison Project include greater access to computers and databases for students and teachers and more instruction time, said Tracey...
...York City heat wave as Joseph Santangelo (Vincent D'Onofrio), a butcher, wins his wife in a pinochle game with her father. The father bets his daughter's hand; Joseph bets a cold blast of air from his meat locker. After a small protest, Catherine Falconetti (Tracey Ullman, the overblown British comedienne) marries him, becomes pregnant, and falls victim to her haggard mother-in-law's Old World superstitions. Her first miscarried child seems to possess a chicken's wings. Why? Because she walked into the butcher's shop while Joseph slaughtered a turkey, of course. We know that something...
This is, of course, all very subtle, and one has difficulty overlooking Tracey Ullman's coarse performance as an Italian-American butcher's wife. Aside from the fact that she looks like a man in a bad wig, she struggles to conceal her cockney accent and is inexpressive at best. Lili Taylor as Teresa tries too hard to convey a lowly monastic plainness, ending up as flat as Ullman. Judith Malina plays the matriarch Carmela as charmingly as an unfed pit-bull...