
Words and Pictures
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Dina?
Oh, hey. Sorry, I'm late.
- No.
- Are you ready?
Yes.
How you feeling? Are you nervous?
Stop.
I've brought three casseroles,
and I put them in the fridge.
Here.
I can do this one.
Okay, here's your purse.
Your lunch is inside.
Um, there's a...
There's a ramp around
the side if...
I'm fine.
Let's go, let's go.
Four minutes late, Mr. Marc.
Did you bring a note?
Stanhope, read aloud
where we left off.
"Richard and I went across the
road to the stubbly field,
"and I let him climb
in the tractor saddle,
"and I showed him..."
Stanhope, you're a sleeping pill.
It's not me, it's...
It is you. Of course it's you.
You've already been
accepted at MIT,
and you're wondering
why you should care.
Why should Stanhope
care about John Updike?
Who can answer this?
Who are you droids?
Where is my class that you've
kidnapped and replaced?
He should care because
Updike wrote...
"The lesson over,
"he went to the garden patch
and joined his mother.
"He punched her stomach,
"and I watched them pretend to box.
"Above them, on a
single strand of wire
"strung to bring our
house electricity,
"grackles and starlings neatly
punctuated an invisible sentence."
You ever heard that before?
Updike has handed you an image
that was never described before.
What do you think of his gift?
Oh!
Fine. You know?
While I take a nap, your
assignment is to write
a never-before created image,
one that will shake me and
cause me to put your work
in the next issue of
the Croyden Lion.
Yes, Tammy?
You haven't graded our
last three assignments,
and I don't know where
I stand in this class,
and I need an "A" because I'm
not accepted to Princeton yet,
and they'll take this
quarter's grade into account.
What a dull, plodding sentence.
Of all the words you
had to choose from,
all the possibilities
of rhythm and sequence,
you gave me oatmeal
when you could have served
me a New York steak.
Just write the assignment
now, everyone.
Just one sentence that
elevates humankind
with one image fresh-baked
from the ovens
of your computer-deadened,
shopping mall-suffocated minds.
Shaftner, wake up!
Write, you droids.
Write.
- Good morning, Jack.
- Will.
You were late again.
Car trouble.
Who's the bastard
that turned me in?
I am.
Why are you always late this year?
I don't know.
Why are you always dressed
monochromatically?
I guess I do tend toward
the look of a uniform.
Past life maybe.
You were an usher?
Come and see me in my office,
What, because I was late?
More. There's more.
Antihistamine.
Antihistamine.
- Ellen?
- Not playing.
Not playing.
Walt? Antihistamine.
Uh, bifurcation.
Only four syllables. My point.
Don't encourage him.
Okay, bifurcational.
I'll accept.
So we're getting
three of them today,
the teachers from that
failed Croyden school.
Coextensively.
We're getting art honors.
Do you know who's
teaching art honors?
- No.
- And what they call her?
- Coextensively.
- Will you stop?
Will you stop interrupting?
It's Walt's turn.
Uh, diabolical, and I quit.
Who is this?
Dina Delsanto.
She's a very successful painter.
You couldn't afford to collect her.
The only thing Walt
collects is lint.
So what do they call her?
The Icicle.
They say she caned a student.
She caned a kid?
That's nonsense.
They would have put her in prison.
Well, let's check for a tattoo.
Good morning.
I would like to introduce
our new teachers...
Miss Elliot, Latin, Mr. Chow, Math,
and Miss Delsanto, Art Honors.
Please make them feel welcome.
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