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Word: badness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to teach approaches to different fields of knowledge. Instead, however, students say Core classes are basically intro-level department courses, and bad ones at that...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Avoiding Responsibility in the '80s | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

...Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi is just a tad unrealistic, British playwright Pam Gems seems to be taking male depravity to an extreme in order to test out the weaknesses and strengths of her four female characters. This exaggerration causes us to question their actions. If men are so bad, why do these women permit men to treat them this way? Why do they keep coming back for more...

Author: By Jocelyn L. Morin, | Title: Harvard Theater | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

None of these forgetable films, though, are quite as bad as Heat, an impossibly dull plod through the Vegas underworld. Reynolds--transformed into a Mexican by the careful application of some Ultra-Tan Lotion--stars as Nick Escalante, professional chaperone and "master of edged weapons." Even after chewing on it for three days, I cannot think of word scathing enough to describe Reynolds' somnabulatory performance. He's so wooden that you want to build an addition out of him. He stumbles through the moronic plot like the newly-resurrected, his face frozen into a tanned grimace, with not a single...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: How Do I Hate Thee? | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

...WHAT'S the point? This is a ridiculously bad movie; I saw it on Tuesday and by the time you read this column it will probably have completely vanished from the theaters, only to reappear Monday in cardboard boxes on video stores shelves throughout the nation. If there is any justice in this forsaken world, the cellophane will go undisturbed until the Apocalypse, when the damned souls will be forced to watch it for eternity...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: How Do I Hate Thee? | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

...also criticizes the lack of freshman unity. "We need more of a student's center. Every other school has a place where students can meet and pass the time; there's no place like that here. I don't know people who are three entries over. That's really bad." The one change Korman said she would like to see would be the addition of a late-night grill...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

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