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Most first-grade readers are dull because the authors, uninventive to begin with, are unable to surmount the limitation of "controlled vocabulary"-a controversial theory that beginning readers must stick to a few bite-size words and repeat them often. Whatever the ultimate solution, a sensible first step is hiring real writers who can make even a few words dance...
...only," and I went to follow. Wishful thinking. Susan grabbed my arm. "This gate, dear," she said cheerily. Under the stands we ran into one of her friends, similarly bundled up. They exchanged raucous greetings. Her friend's date stared dumbly at the two of them and took another bite of his hot dog. We exchanged shrugs, unsmilingly...
...Weill's music (under the direction of Richard Parrinello) always restores the flow. And it is perhaps no accident that the most successful performance in the production (Gerry Ledd's Jenny) is almost exclusively a singing role. The music still has teeth even when the dialogue has lost its bite...
...group of University of Wisconsin students: ''If you have been following the newspapers, you know that for the past few days I have been hacking my way out of a Birch forest. And I can tell you that the Birch bark is worse than the Birch bite...
...fence into someone else's land. As Getty and a few friends were out for a stroll, one of the dogs, named Max, took off after a calf grazing in the field of Farmer A. H. Tilley, grabbed the animal by the throat and took a hefty bite. Said Getty, fined $14 for permitting his hound to "worry a calf": "Max always was a bit of a hunter...