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Jacobson missed some of the action because of administrative tasks--finding a tap for the traditional rugby beg of beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Win | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...puns seems to have been lost in this translation by Robert Chapman, professor of English Literature. Hochepaix, for instance, tries to explain the pronunciation of the last syllable of his name in this witty exchange: "Pay. Not Pee. P-A-I-X." To which Ventroux replies, smugly. "Oh, I beg your pardon. Pay, not Pee. Unintentional error, of course." Similarly, Clarisse doesn't understand why Ventroux is upset that Hochepaix called him a "pretty pair of sights." Ventroux informs her that the term was "party parasite." Jokes like these may have worked better in French; they do not stack...

Author: By Mark A. Silber, | Title: A Pleasant Romp | 4/14/1982 | See Source »

...show that Chris can have just as much fun with a man as she did with a woman. Towne (who also wrote and produced the film) has her express delight with her lover's penis, and beg to hold it while he urinates. Look folks. Towne seems to be saying, heterosexuals can be kinky too. After the emotional depth of the lesbian relationship, this sounds suspiciously apologetic--as apologetic as Chris when she reluctantly explains to her new man that Tory was more than a friend...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Running for Love | 4/8/1982 | See Source »

...lobbying tips in the training packed, which supplement a training meeting held last week at Suffolk University, instruct students not to threaten, not to act as if you know it all and not to beg "Over lunch at a trucking stop in Connecticut, students discussed some supplementary strategies

Author: By Amy E. Scnwartz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Students Bus To Capital For Rally | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...result from the heady mixture of myth and fantasy--with but a sprinkling of fact--regarding the Soviet Union that Reagan and his advisors have been sniffing for some time. Yet even if one accepts this naively Manichean world-view, it is increasingly obvious that the great arms grab beg is securing few benefits for the U.S. The $8.5 billion Awacs deal, heralded as the coup that would seal the U.S. Saudi alliance, is already looking like a debacle. Within weeks of the Senate's narrow approval of the sale, members of the Saudi ruling family declared that, contrary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inviting Catastrophe | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

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