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Never fear. The Crimson editorial page today brings you your favorite reading-period exercise in procrastination: The Grader Page...
...doodled. The lower eyelid of a headlamp. A fender. A door window. A trunk. And wheels. Sometimes a teardrop, a spacecraft. Cars. Even hiding out behind the back desk of the third row wasn't enough to keep the Flint, Michigan, fourth-grader out of trouble, until an art teacher stopped by and became Tom Gale's first serious customer...
...nonsense girlfriend (Tisha Campbell). Lawrence is such an animated performer, he is nearly a cartoon -- sunny, outgoing, impossible to dislike no matter how nasty he is being. During a typical show, he'll also play any number of wild supporting characters, as broadly drawn as a third-grader's art-class project. An auto mechanic who won't stop singing soul songs. A runny-nosed child with an MIA mother. An extension-wearing, finger-snapping round-the-way girl from across the hall. Martin is a post- Cosby Show farce, a show for the I-am-not-a-role-model...
...done it," says Lona Mott, a ninth-grader at Franklin Area High School, from which Shingledecker graduated last spring. On Halloween two years ago, she recalls, she and 20 other kids took turns arranging themselves like sardines across a road. When they saw headlights, most bolted, but a few stayed pat. Says Mott: "All my friends were doing it, so I did it. I wasn't even thinking of getting...
That gesture may make little difference in Venango County, where two more youths attempted the roadway stunt on Wednesday -- one a fourth-grader, the other a first-grader. And it will complicate things for Patricia Shingledecker. She vows to go and see the movie, including the highway scene. "I want to see what prompted them," she says. "Everyone says Michael and I were a lot alike. If I see it, I think I could understand better." If the movie does enlighten her, then she will have achieved an answer that so far seems to elude the nation...