Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students, mainly minorities, now living below the poverty level and attending schools that typically cannot attract top teachers. "America must now provide to the many the same quality of education presently reserved for the fortunate few," says the report, written principally by Carnegie's executive director Marc Tucker. "Only the teachers can finally accomplish (that) agenda . . . The cost of not doing so will be a steady erosion of the American standard of living...
...Sophie Tucker said, "I have been rich, and I have been poor. Rich is better." Of course it is, especially when spring arrives and the IRS closes in. But when most people imagine what life would be like after winning the lottery, they do not come up with 5,400 shoes. The methodical analyst switches on his calculator. If Imelda Marcos changed her shoes three times a day, and never wore the same pair twice, it would take her more than two years and five months to work through her shoe supply--as it existed on the day she fled...
...that Sir Thomas Beecham once advised a tenor to sing the last scene of La Boheme on the bed next to the dying Mimi? "In that position, my dear fellow," said the redoubtable baronet, "I have performed some of my greatest achievements." And who can top the advice Richard Tucker once gave Franco Corelli, when the golden-calved Italian tenor asked the American for the secret of his way with Puccini? "To sing it right, Franco," said the former Reuben Ticker, "you have to be Jewish." You could look...
Singing aside, Tucker McCrady's playing of the sorcerer who sold the love potion to Alex had the sold-out audience roaring with laughter. However, his one-liners and humorous antics could not save The Sorceror from an overall lack of energy. The blame for this major flaw falls on the shoulders of director Thomas P. Large. His attempt to spice up the play with jokes not originally in the script failed to enliven his production...
...chief cause of the current crisis is what Tucker calls "some of the steepest drops in land values ever." In just the past year, farm real estate values plummeted $100 billion partly because large food surpluses and depressed crop prices have made agriculture less attractive. Lower land prices have been devastating to the FCS because most of its loans are real estate mortgages, in which collateral is now greatly eroded...