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Microsociety is the dream child of George Richmond, a painter, teacher, author and acclaimed educator who was raised in the tenements of Manhattan's Lower East Side. His first job, at a Brooklyn elementary school in 1967, was a rookie teacher's nightmare. Richmond's fifth-graders skipped class, scorned homework and slept through lectures, their apathy and cynicism surpassed only by their appetite for petty classroom warfare. In the end, the young idealist from Yale threw up his hands at a system in which teachers who pretended to teach and students who pretended to learn did very little...
...during the past six years only five children have dropped out. Those numbers were impressive enough to inspire the New York school districts of Yonkers and Newburgh and the Massachusetts district of Pepperell to create their own versions of Microsociety, and two weeks ago the doors of Manhattan's first Micro school opened -- just 10 blocks from the slums where Richmond grew...
...thing to realize now is that Allen wrote this movie long before he says he was involved with Soon-Yi. The thing that moviegoers will realize decades hence is that Husbands and Wives is a damn fine film. Here again he is X- raying the gnarled psyches of Manhattan's glamourati: Gabe and Judy and their best friends Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis). Each is in some stage of a mid-love crisis; each married partner is given the chance to follow a flirtation to climax or catastrophe. Typically, Allen deals himself the highest cards. Gabe alone...
...grew up in the racially mixed Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, messed around with drugs "the way everyone did then," and by her late teens was a high school dropout ("I just wasn't cut out for it") with a broken marriage and a baby daughter. Not long afterward she was living on welfare in San Diego. But her story can't be told that quickly. She looks on her childhood as privileged. Her mother, a nurse and a Head Start teacher, was a strong woman ("Still is. She's got her foibles, but she's amazing") who would...
Love and War seems even more artificial when compared with Mad About You, the season's best new sitcom. Paul and Jamie (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt) are Manhattan newlyweds with no cute eccentricities, no clashing political views, no comical disparities in social background. Their problems are the little ones that occur when even compatible people are tossed into the same house together for the first time. Just getting out of the apartment in the morning is a Feydeau farce: she rushes back to open the window (the dog needs air), he rushes back to close it (a burglar might...