Word: turk
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...Fowler-Finn said that his early exit was merely a matter of taking his vacation days and allowing a smooth transition for current Deputy Superintendent Carolyn L. Turk to preside over the year’s budget deliberations as interim superintendent...
...that the district has already adopted many of the recommendations made by the state for improvement. “We’ve been doing the things on the list, and we’re not getting the results we want,” MacDonald said. Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk said that the district can use the tests as a preliminary tool to better understand and address students’ needs. “There have been areas of progress, and at the same time, we are able to recognize the areas where we still need to do some work...
Business School students have a lot on their plate, from case studies to recruiting events, but occasionally a troublesome turkey becomes the main course. The HBS fowl, nicknamed “Turk Turkee” by some students, has created a rift between those members of the student body who think it is a nuisance and those who think it is a harmless source of entertainment. “Although the turkey has been around since I’ve been here, I’ve never had a personal run-in with the turkey,” said Valentina...
...Niro has weathered pretty well. In a bed scene with Gugino, his skin still clings tautly to his body. The scowl that was the actor's early trademark has settled into a thin lip-line of resignation; no catastrophe laid on Turk can surprise or disappoint him. Maybe De Niro has kept his physical instrument in shape all these years by husbanding his gestures. But Pacino has been a perpetual motion machine. In this movie he still is: dancing like a boxer, chewing gum, his feet banging out a nervous paradiddle. Eventually, gravity takes its revenge. In remorseless closeup...
...film wants its viewers to see it as a summation of the stars' relationship. Turk says of Rooster that "I'm always the one following him through the door," just as De Niro made his first dramatic-movie splash a couple years after Pacino earned raves for his junkie role in Panic in Needle Park. Rooster tells Turk, "You're the one I looked up to all my life and could never be." It's as if Pacino was admitting that his bantam-weight hyper-hammery, the excesses of yelling and kvelling and strutting and posturing, were...