Word: betty
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrifying. In one typically disturbing scene, the director reveals his views on sexual exploitation by sending his two leads to bed with a lovely village laundress who proves to be epileptic. Later, when the Blackshirts come to power, the movie's principal villains (Donald Sutherland and Laura Betti) rape a young boy and smash him to a gory pulp. Even Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties did not evoke Fascism's evils with this much ferocity...
...registration issue of the Crimson which was sent to all incoming Freshmen featured several "my first year at Harvard" stories--personal accounts of past experiences at the school. They reminded me of high class versions of those weight reducing ads in which Betti-Jo Applepie tells about her life-long battle with fifty extra pounds and how she managed to win the fight with the help of the product. There were only two major differences that I could detect between the ads and the Crimson articles: 1) The struggle was not against chocolate cakes and napoleons but against the pitfalls...