Word: axed
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...mature, tactful participants in Harvard’s administrative structures, and have acquitted themselves flawlessly—it is doubtless only a matter of time before the College accedes to their eloquently, insistently stated demands.Last week, the College’s positively Jacobin interim dean, David Pilbeam, let the axe fall on the UC’s weekly party grants, the nascent micro-finance of Harvard’s social life. Party grants have propelled the development of a quasi-fetal social scene among the world’s most socially underprivileged animals—Harvard students?...
...doing with the black-and-white printing press was to run all the joke stories his editors came up with to entertain themselves. It has since become a cultural institution, spawning the award-winning Bat Boy: The Musical, driving the plot of Mike Myers' So I Married an Axe Murderer and appearing as a sly joke in Men in Black, when alien hunter Tommy Lee Jones cited it for delivering the "best damn investigative reporting on the planet." It presented a world so big anything could happen, not if we released too much carbon dioxide but if we made...
...says Freedman. "This group of ads as a whole had a violence associated with them that didn 't connect with people as being humorous or harmless. Something about them made people not feel that it was all in good fun." Whether it was a dour-looking hitchhiker holding an axe and a pack of Budweiser, or a group of bankers in masks in a mock hold up of its customers, Sunday night 's offerings contained a decidedly dark message that, according to UCLA 's brain scans, may not translate into...
...received, the run was not without a few Gilbert and Sullivan-esque twists.Marshall writes that two strange incidents occurred prior to the production of “Iolanthe.” The night before the show was scheduled to take place, a light designer “grabbed an axe, chopped up the entire set, and burned it,” he writes. Although he was shocked, Marshall solved the problem the next day by decorating the set with several Union Jacks. Curiously enough, Marshall writes that “every review praised the ‘impressionistic?...
...overly suspicious, unless their behavior makes me feel other ways,” she says. So those could be two freshmen sitting at the end of your table, or clever MIT students out on a late-night jog who got the munchies, or maybe even axe murderers. But don’t get any ideas. We wouldn’t want to make you paranoid...