Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scare picture about an escaped lunatic who, having returned to his home town Halloween night, stalks some high school girls babysitting in adjoining houses. The combined budgets of these two films total a great deal less than half the production costs of the more solemnly ingratiating Academy Award nominees you are likely to see in their places. In each, against the pulpy, gritty texture of the surface plot, an arch and fastidious intelligence glistens and clings like some slime on a rock. These films are constructed with canny, modest movie-making acuity, and within what they try for and accomplish...
While Hackett often overshadowed his teammate in the pool, the coaches awarded Coglin the William Brooks award for "outstanding effort and achievement" at the end of the season...
...Stop the Rain? Ignore the sappy title; Paramount didn't have the guts to release it under "Dog Soldiers." But here it is, adapted by author Robert Stone from his award-winning novel--a horrifying movie that graphically portrays Stone's peculiar vision of America in the early '70s. Alexandr Solzhenyitsen aside, it is a curiously amoral world, careening along on its own hellish trip, where the good guys and the bad guys become indistinguishable. Where the last vision of sanity is of ubermensch Ray Hicks (stunningly portrayed by Nick Nolte) slamming a clip into his M-16 and proclaiming...
...recent recipient of the Henry Ames Award for most improved wrestler, Cimmarusti is the first Harvard underclass captain since his coach was so honored...
...newspaper staff) thought we were justified in giving Nixon the award, and we will continue to think so," said Cohen. He cited Nixon's career--from his 1953 trip to the Soviet Union to his visit to China in 1973--as reasons for the honor...