Word: intention
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When the white Jets sing to the police officer on their tale in "Office Krupke," they are singing for all the delinquent youth in the play: "There is good, there is good/There is untapped good/Like inside, the worst of us is good." To examine the play and find it intentionally, harmfully stereotypical is not just a difference of opinion, it's a misinterpretation of the authors' intent. "West Side" is a timeless story, whether it's set in 16th-century Verona, 1950's New York or any modern city today...
...MCAS is mandated by the Education Reform Act of 1993, the intent of which was to encourage investment and interest in Massachusetts schools. The state has devoted a great many resources to improving the quality of education under this legislation. Standards and expectations have been raised, and much-needed attention has been focused on the schools. However, if more than a quarter of the total high school class across the state fails to receive a diploma because of one test, the outrage will cause an immense backlash against education reform, with destructive consequences. The state must encourage and enable students...
...sketches of "Middle Eastern looking" individuals who were suspected of planting the bomb. In fact, one "expert," Steven Emerson, who recently visited Harvard and gave a talk about the dangers of Islam in America, was quoted as saying, "This was done with the intent to inflict as many casualties as possible. That is a Middle Eastern trait." It wasn't long before these vicious stereotypes were proven wrong, once the real criminal, an American Neo-Nazi, was exposed...
...onerous? Do television stars really still believe they can be successful in the movies? These were among the disquieting questions raised last week when JULIANNA MARGULIES rebuffed a $27 million offer to remain on ER for two more seasons. After six years of playing nurse Carol Hathaway, Margulies is intent on pursuing her film career. "We wish her well and know that she will be successful in all her endeavors," said ER executive producer John Wells. Perhaps Wells hasn't seen The Newton Boys, Margulies' last film, which earned a total of $10 million, or less than half...
...filmed in a studio near London and cast mostly with British actors. At first the accents are jarring; viewers will stop to wonder just when Americans finally learned to speak American. But the presence of Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and especially Christopher Lee will tip you to Burton's intent. He is making not an American folktale but a British horror movie--a tribute to the Hammer studio of the late '50s and later, to its Dracula and Frankenstein remakes, to the decorum punctuated by gore, the stake driven into the capacious bosom...