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...promoted unless they receive at least a C in math and reading. Parents must come in person to pick up report cards. Parents and teachers must sign the one-hour homework lessons assigned to pupils four times a week. Says one teach er: "What we do here, they complement at home." Adds a parent: "The kids don't have to be told it's time for them to do then-homework." Children, teachers say, are proud of their achievement and feel the school wants them to get a head start. Says Crumley: "There's nothing elitist about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trying the Old-Fashioned Way | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

Fuentes weighs equally novels and short stories. "They complement each other--a novel is like and ocean, has breadth, is long and deep and covers many shores, whereas a short story has been defined as a calamity told in a telegram: 'Your mother died today.' The novel is infinitely inclusive, where as the short story is exclusive--everything is done by allusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lengthy Career | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

Plunkett and the Raiders have Mark Van Eeghen and Kenny King in the backfield, two steady runners to complement an explosive passing game which includes Raymond Chester, Bob Chandler (Fred Biletnikoff incarnate) and Cliff Branch...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Blue-Gray Classic With a Crimson Tint | 1/23/1981 | See Source »

Bowie uses his lyrics as extensions of his arrangement schemes, offering fragments of dialogue and images to complement his music. "Up The Hill Backwards," "Ashes to Ashes" and "Because You're Young" are abstruse in specific meaning, but convey a definite mood of danger and intrigue. The weakest track, "Fashion," is also the easiest to understand, a meditation on disco culture of little import...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAVID BOWIE | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...front, senior Sue Field and sophomore Jennifer White chipped in four and three goals respectively to complement Martin, and sophomore forward/link Maureen Finn contributed a team-leading seven assists, mostly on penalty corners...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Ups and Downs | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

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