Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-member board rejected the theater's license application in late September, stating that permitting movies to be shown at midnight "would set a bad precedent" and would cause traffic congestion in Harvard Square. That decision forced Brattle Theatre to turn away 300 moviegoers from midnight showings of "Eraserhead" on the weekend of September...
...marijuana across the border to Beverly Hills, and smoke a lot of dope. They dominate the movie, wooden as they are, by refusing to put any other characters in the film, using instead a loosely constructed set of stereotypes and caricatures to fill up the screen. There are the bad old cops trying to bust the dope smokers, but the police are incredible bumblers who wind up arresting a group of nuns in a station wagon at the border and then telling tasteless priest-nun jokes. There are the druggies, who ingest anything not nailed down. One woman snorts...
...considerable improvement." But there were no recorded dissents during several meetings last fall when Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall incorrectly calculated that the odds were against a coal strike, or on Nov. 7, 1977, when Treasury Secretary Blumenthal argued that the position of the dollar abroad "is not as bad as it may appear here...
Some generals maintain that Walker made a bad choice. He could have accepted his demotion, with another shot at his fourth star next summer, when other top slots will open. At 53, Walker had plenty of time for a comeback. Instead, he will try for the first time to make a life outside the Army, helped by retirement pay of $38,000 a year, just $15,000 less than his general's pay. "I'm not embittered," he said. "I'm young enough. I can do something else. I'm not going out to pasture...
...were shut up in a dilapidated palace by a powerful Roman senator to keep them from being influenced by Emperor Frederick II, then besieging the city. Three of the Cardinals died of brutal treatment; the remaining seven elected a Pope who died within 16 days, after excommunicating the bad senator...