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...from the same cloth, a take-off on Watergate that uses a religious framework should have great potential. But Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film Nasty Habits relies too much on an ornamental frame--the format of transplanting the Watergate scenario to a Philadelphia convent--and leaves only a blank canvas for content...
...like the adjustments would pay off and earth the Crimson an upset over the red-hot Quakers. At 4:04 of the final quarter, MacKenzie rung up the third goal of his hat trick to tie the game, 9-9. Penn looked tired, and when Michelson stopped a point-blank shot to stymie a Quaker scoring bid moments later, the momentum seemed to have swung to the well-conditioned Crimson...
...COUPLE OF YEARS AGO some smart publisher came out with a joke book called The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro Agnew--filled with blank pages. Billy Carter doesn't have any of Spiro Agnew's problems. He wasn't vice president (he couldn't even be elected mayor of Plains, Georgia) and when Billy pleaded "no contest" in court it was for selling beer on Sunday. That's the kind of material publishers and other purveyors of presidential pabulum realize people relate to nowadays at the supermarket counter. He's real, they say. "Billy Carter, philosopher-king, America's newest...
...couldn't make the Alpine team as a freshman," Rand said, "and I wanted to try jumping. Little did I know they'd (I can't read my writing, but it's a four-letter verb. Fill in the blank yourself) me into it as soon as I put on skis...
...course, it's still OK for prospective freshwomen to play the violin, ace their SATs, or live in Idaho. Just as long as they don't leave the athletic section of their application blank...