Word: score
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...side plot, about Prohibition and a nightclub's hidden supply of booze, is even sillier. Again, contemporary audiences may be a little queasy about the condescension to dialect and folkways and the equation of black status with pseudowhite behavior. But there is a nonpareil score by George and Ira Gershwin (Someone to Watch Over Me, Clap Yo' Hands) and a display of solo and ensemble tap dancing, by Gregg Burge and a 16-member chorus under the direction of Dan Siretta, that is unsurpassed on Broadway...
TUNE IN TOMORROW. Like the soap operas it parodies, this broad comedy teases more than it delivers in its tale of a blowsy woman (Barbara Hershey), her avid nephew (Keanu Reeves) and a radio writer (Peter Falk) who loves mischief and hates Albanians. A savory score by Wynton Marsalis, though...
...them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige in the publishing and writing community," says literary agent Mort Janklow. "He will attract writers by the score." Will this hard-charging new chief ratchet up the best-seller wars another notch? It's a story line even Murdoch would enjoy...
Seldom has a warning been so baldly ignored. Back in 1926 the nonprofit College Board introduced the Scholastic Aptitude Test with a cautionary observation: "This additional test," said the board, "should be regarded merely as a supplementary record. To place too great an emphasis on test scores is as dangerous as the failure properly to evaluate a score...
...officials deny that the SATs propagate inequity and reflect bias. The fact that upper-income whites score higher than lower-income minorities, they contend, reflects society's imbalances, not the exams'. ETS notes that 400 people of varying backgrounds check every SAT question during 10 review stages and eliminate any that are found to be biased. "To say these tests are biased because results vary," says Gary Saretzky, chief of ETS's sensitivity-review process, "is like blaming the thermometer for the fever...