Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Economic Revitalization Board is a bad mistake. At the White House door will appear not progressive new industries, but companies on the verge of bankruptcy. In our political system this board can be nothing other than a bailout operation. Carter's plan would gradually increase Government control of the economy...
...lover and friend, he can never quite satisfy his women. As a film maker, he can shower them with cinematic gifts: a final close-up for Rampling, a final kiss for Barrault, the film's final shot in which he retrieves Harper's sunglasses. He can control their destinies and make them happy...
...control life," says Woody Allen in Stardust Memories. "It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only art you can control. Art and masturbation-two areas in which I'm an absolute expert." Some moviegoers will see the film as life made into art, the rarefied atmosphere of Manhattan high life bottled, aged and served with a chill. Others will wonder if the movie isn't an elaborate mechanism of self-abuse, a Rube Goldberg dildo, a film about a dead end that is a dead end for this prolific, personal film maker. Stardust Memories has much to please...
...Midwest, attempts to test new teachers before they teach have not fared as well. State legislatures in Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin have let competency testing proposals die in committee. Teachers' unions are generally wary of licensing, and have sought to ensure that teachers themselves control licensing standards. Parent-teacher associations often are afraid that state wide professional boards set up to judge teachers will destroy local control of schools...
Underlying most current licensing reform proposals is the assumption that teaching can be improved by making the field more professional through use of measurable standards and uniform review procedures. In marked contrast, another licensing proposal is aimed at wresting control of teacher standards away from the present educational establishment. That radical notion has been proposed by Philosopher Mortimer Adler, 77, who argues that most of the nation's education schools and departments "are themselves the reason why our schools are staffed by woefully incompetent, uneducated, illiterate, unmotivated teachers...