Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel was a deliciously complex academician's joke: a multiple- murder mystery set in the Middle Ages and starring a Sherlockian monk with the mind-set of a modern semiotician. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud's pale "palimpsest" of the novel opts instead for rolling around in the muck, blood and superstitions of primitive societies -- a sort of Quest for Friar. Annaud goes about his task with the self-satisfied air of an anthropology professor shocking the freshmen out of their complacency. His reversal of the tale's priorities dulls its point and dims the mature, intelligent presence of Sean Connery...
...Blankenship to death. There is Grandpa, who can water-ski 40 miles and carries a 90-lb. cross through town every Good Friday. Conroy can be shameless in his extravagances of language and plot, yet he consistently conveys two fundamental emotions: the attachment to place and the passion for blood ties...
...AIDS virus from officer training, I feel compelled to point out that while this policy may seem discriminatory to a particular campus interest group, it is certainly consistent with the military regulations which exclude from active duty anyone suffering from a variety of ailments ranging from cancer to high blood pressure. On the contrary, the Navy's concern is, understandably, economic...
Students often complain about feeling out of touch with the subjects they study. For James A. Anderson '86-'87, an East Asian Languages and Civilizations concentrator, it was the desire to see "the flesh and blood behind what I was learning" that prompted his enrollment in a language program at Nanjing University in China...
...participating in athletics, institutions gain a whole new dimension of power over individuals. Access to that kind of knowledge about a population creates a whole new network of social controls. Power is no longer in a white-domed building in Washington, it reaches out and takes a blood sample...