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...music and the red-bulbed ersatz Radio City Music Hall set, and the hyperkinetic pace should suffice, at least for a start. Then check out the movie at Exeter. Those who bother to look past Rocky Horror's surface shock value--"give yourself over to absolute pleasure," urges Frank, "swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh"--will discover a literate and witty parody of the science fiction and horror genres that manages to remain unpretentious--though that hasn't prevented its legion of fans from adopting Rock Horror lifestyles based on Frank N. Furter's fundamental premise...
...started to walk toward the car and ran into a friend from the swim team. I explained my failed mission and she and her fit friend suddenly looked very pitying...
What better time than the summer for swimming? Men's swim team captain Bobby Hackett placed in all four of his events in the Seventeen Swim Meet of Champions in Mission Viejo, Calif., with third-place finishes in the 1500- and 800-meter races. Other Crimson swimmers, including incoming freshmen Mike Miao, a freestyler, and Greg Eckstrom,a butterflyer and backstroker, also produced strong results. And aquaman mentor Joe Bernal coached the AAU national team that toured China in August...
What better time than the summer for swimming? Men's swim team captain Bobby Hackett placed in all four of his events in the Seventeen Swim Meet of Champions in Mission Viejo, Calif., with third-place finishes in the 1500- and 800-meter races. Other Crimson swimmers, including incoming freshmen Mike Miao, a freestyler, and Greg Eckstrom,a butterflyer and backstroker, also produced strong results. And aquaman mentor Joe Bernal coached the AAU national team that toured China in August...
Supporters see bilingual ed as a vast improvement over the sink-or-swim school techniques that Americanized earlier immigrants. Says Awilda Orta, director of New York City's office of bilingual education: "People who feel good about their past heritage will be more productive citizens." But critics regard bilingual education as expensive, inefficient and above all unAmerican. Says Diane Ravitch of Columbia University's Teachers College: "There are cases of third-generation Puerto Ricans in bilingual classes. That just doesn't make sense...