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Word: badness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleviate River House crowding. President Bok said at Borth House last week that the main question of whether the changes proceed is sufficient funds, not sufficient student support. There has been no apparent attempt to garner undergraduate opinion--to see whether cramped rooms at the river are a problem bad enough to send more people to the Quad, and only College officials can show otherwise. But the housing lottery convincingly demonstrates that most students would rather live tight than switch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go for Quality, Not Quantity | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

...Reagan is saying that Blacks have had their chance through the civil rights movement, and if they haven't made it yet, it's too bad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sense, Not Dollars | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

Responsible college newspapers should not print articles that are offensive of in bad taste. You did. Paul L. Choi and Clark J. Freshman's "Stanford Who?" (12/5/83) conveys a brand of sarcasm and "wit" that I find very distasteful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poor Taste | 12/8/1983 | See Source »

...Frank is the middle-class middle man, tangling fatally with both the coke aristocracy of Bolivia and Tony, his proletarian successor. He has two things Tony wants: power and a bored blond mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer), with a Kew-pie-doll mouth soured into a who-cares sneer and the bad habit of powdering her nose from the inside. Tony also develops a paternal letch for his teen-age sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). The combination of greed and blood lust is too much for this bad guy to handle; if one doesn't get him, the other will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Say Good Night to the Bad Guy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...running time or its ambitions, it is still exhilarating for its vigor and craftsmanship. Visual Consultant Ferdinando Scarfiotti has designed the film in a kitsch-glitz riot of evocative colors: gold (for money), white (cocaine), red (blood) and black (death). As Tony vaults up the ladder of excess, his bad taste escalates as well. He trades in his yellow Caddy with the tiger-skin upholstery for a $43,000 gray Porsche. His favorite hangout, the Babylon nightclub, is a gaudy Erechtheum stocked with black Naugahyde banquettes, pink and blue ribbons of neon, black-marble toilet stalls, and mirrors, mirrors everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Say Good Night to the Bad Guy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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