Word: unwrap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what those others do, often quite slowly and defectively. It's not ignorance that bothers them: ignorance exists like a hole in the desert, for them to pour their learning into; it's "incompetence"--students not picking it all up rapidly, but getting muddled and not being able to unwrap their own muddles. The hidden fact about our profession--perhaps not too well hidden--is that learners complete it enormously. Teachers want to get on with their own work, and their genuine involvement gets reinforced by ambition, egotism, and institutional pressures to produce. They're frustrated by the existence...
...believes Christina Crawford's tales of child abuse in the bestselling Mommie Dearest, the real surprise is that little Christina was not actually done away with by her mommie severest. Now Faye Dunaway will unwrap that dirty linen again: Dunaway plays Joan Crawford in the movie version being shot in Los Angeles for a scheduled September release. The facial resemblance is clearly a casting director's dream. Says Dunaway: "It was scary the first time I saw it." She puts Crawford the Legend before Joan the Mom. Faye's judgment: "I have nothing but admiration...
...Ayatullah Khomeini's blind sense of vengeance sanctioned the seizure; and the hostages suffered their own blindness, held in solitary and the dark. All year long, photographs of American heads in blindfolds became icons of the crime. Now the U.S. itself is like those blindfolded prisoners as they unwrap their bindings and get used to the light: Where are we? Where have we been...