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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This alternation of the mock-epic and the earthy proved an ideal technique in Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Graham Chapman's snooty King Arthur deserved to have shit flung upon him. In Jabberwocky, a 1976 bomb starring two Python members, the mock-epic dropped out entirely and left the cast wallowing in a cesspool of gore and unbearable toilet humor. Life of Brian returns to the successful formula of Holy Grail, spoofing a genre of film and its directorial cliches with both skillful imitation and derision...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Monty Python's Flying Surplice | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

Changing demographics, and high inflation, spell trouble for the funds A pension bomb threatens the U.S. economy. Its fuse may now seem comfortably long, but it is indisputably burning. The toughest issue in the negotiations for a new contract between General Motors and the auto workers was not demands for more pay for the U.A.W.'s 460,000 workers on GM's pay roll, but for increased benefits for its fast-growing legion of retired employees. A big reason why policymakers in Washington are agonizing heavily over Chrysler's petition for federal help is the stark fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Danger: Pension Perils Ahead | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard got little out of the stand when a 19-yd. Duke Millard punt set Columbia up for its first and only points of the day. Against a Harvard defense that was beginning to sag, Conroy used one play to go 43 yards on a bomb to Steve Wallace for a 19-6 score, just two minutes into the final period. Mazur's kick made...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: CRIMSON CRUSHES LIONS, 26-7 | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matt Sabetti: Combining Both Power and Willpower | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

Whether Sabetti is a knight in King Arthur's court, a linebacker in Harvard Stadium or Iggy Pop with a bomb, he should be successful in his quest to "search and destroy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matt Sabetti: Combining Both Power and Willpower | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

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