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...really expand brainpower or knowledge. For example, a Kaplan guide to the writing section of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills counsels students not to dwell on spelling and punctuation: "If you write a deeply moving essay with atrocious grammar, you might still get a...passing score." Says Walt Haney, a testing expert at Boston College: "My main worry is that students will learn how to take tests but not how to think." Maria Aguilar, an eighth-grader at Robert J. Frank, shares the concern: "It's kind of boring; they go over the same thing so many times...
...public ear through revivals and movie knapsacks - the five Greatest Hits films "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Blue Skies," "Easter Parade," "White Christmas" and "There's No Business Like Show Business." All this perpetuated "Irving Berlin" as a product with no expiration date. He was second only to Walt Disney at branding, and extending the brand. Both men were media visionaries; they saw that such seemingly ephemeral items as cartoons and pop songs had a potentially infinite shelf-life. They were the best and fiercest curators of their achievement...
That dual appeal is a sign of a welcome change in animation. Cartoons have bridged kids' and adult entertainment since the heyday of Walt Disney and Chuck Jones, but the field went through a long creative slump in the '70s and '80s, as programmers churned out Saturday-morning knock-offs made mainly to shill toys (My Little Pony) or repurpose sitcom characters (The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang). Today cartoons have undergone a renaissance, as kids' channels such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have given their animators the freedom of auteurs. Smarter and more idiosyncratic, these animators have created...
...chilly Friday night, and the varsity cheerleaders of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., can see their breath as they cheer for their football team, the Vikings. The girls bounce, tumble and lift smaller members onto human towers. The Viking princesses wear their hair in neat ponytails, scrubbed faces straining with smiles, voices rubbed raw with exertion. A girl with springs for legs does backflips along the edge of the field. "We didn't do stunts like this when I was a cheerleader, many moons ago," sighs Brenda LeGrand, their coach...
John Rockwell ’62, editor of The New York Times Arts and Leisure section, moderated the panel, “Sprung from the Ruins.” Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes introduced the discussion with a recitation of Walt Whitman’s “On the Beach...