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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other skits include two versions of Stanley Kowalski's rape of Stella DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, using different tones and body gestures. Conceivably, some might think one interpretation is rape and one is not. Raz said, "The scene is an interesting bend on what heroes are all about, on how society heroicizes...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Calling it Like it Is | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

...bend-but-don't-break style of 'D' proved to be very successful. Against the powerful Penn rushing game, the defense bent so much it made Plastic Man look like Al Gore...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gridders' Bending 'D' Did Not Break | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...designed to help me and every other Ec 10 section leader improve our teaching abilities. We're young and adaptable: If you tell us that changing something will help you learn, if you contribute to the discussions in class, or if you show up in office hours, we will bend over backwards to help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Advice From an Overburdened Section Leader | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

...Bush Republicans were in charge last August in Houston. Why did the GOP bend over backward to accomodate a group which would harm its November chances...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FIGHT ON THE RIGHT? | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...Legacy"--preference for alumni children and athletes--plays an important role in the admissions process. Jerome Karabel and David Karen wrote in The New York Times on December 8, 1990 that "the image of institutions like Harvard as bastions of academic meritocracy that bend their rigorous standards only for certain racial minorities is both naive and mythical...

Author: By Chinh Pham, | Title: Searching for Diversity Beyond Harvard Yard | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

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