Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exam in use is a pared-down version of the California Achievement Tests. Children are asked to identify shapes, numbers and objects and solve rudimentary math problems ("Sam is the tenth person in line. How many people are in front of him?"). "It was easy," bragged Jesse Palmer, 6, after taking the exam last week at Tybee Elementary School, near Savannah. "I got every one right." Jo Buckley reported that her daughter Candace "thought of it as a game...
...movie version of Jay McInerney's bestseller is getting a bad rap which seems to confirm the bad reputation it earned before it was even released. Oh no, the detractors said, another up-in-coke account of yuppie New York. Oh no, they added, Michael J. Fox plays an arrogant asshole once again. But BLBC is worth your viewing time. It is quite well done and true to the spirit and plot of the novel...
...President-elect James McMahon was instrumental in what Beckett calls the Dins' "search for new sources." Having studied the South African singing group Ladysmith Black Mombazo, McMahon arranged both the dance and the music for a risky version of "You Can Call Me Al," soloed by Larry "Wheel of Fortune" Witdorchic. McMahon's fused all of Ladysmith's guttural African sounds, along with Paul Simon's quiet New York nasality, into one arrangement...
...recipient of an Oscar for her role in "The Year of Living Dangerously", Hunt also counts among her credits performances in "The Bostonians" and the motion piction version of Frank Herbert's "Dune", Among her stage credits, Hunt lists "Hamlet" and Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard...
...number-two singles, Jon Cardi was involved in his own version of guerilla warfare. After the freshman sensation won the first set, 6-3, he dropped a hotly contested second...