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...soon stopped, and I realized that what in my initial panic I had thought to be a shattered lower jaw was in fact only a superficial scrape. I was kicked once or twice and stepped on, and had my hair pulled three times before the curtain call, but I bore it all with equanimity. The worst was over...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Chiller Theater | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

...natural and dreadful culmination of Elvis' attitude towards women came in his final slide, a cartoon of a naked woman pinned under a clothed man. None of her limbs were free; she was helpless. The scene looked, in fact, like a rape. Above this rape a sign bore the word "think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elvis, Nudity: Good Taste? | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

...package was addressed to Williams Hall, home of the Romance Languages department, but bore the street address of a Penn fraternity, Pi Lamda Phi, three blocks away.. The package, marked with Miami and Colombia postmarks, had arrived at the mail room three weeks earlier, said Randall Lane, a reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper...

Author: By James H. Colopy, | Title: Student Finds Package With 4.4 Lbs. of Cocaine | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

...SUCH repetitions were not enough to bore us, the book jumps around in time so much that in order to refresh our memories before adding something new, Naipaul retells--often--what he already has told us hundreds of pages earlier. Besides irritating the reader, this practice drags down what could otherwise be a beautiful description of the English countryside...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Oxford Blues | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...have to admit that I'm legitimately, full-bore, over-the-top amazed at the latest turn of events in the Harvard College quest for justice, in which the faculty unanimously decided to include randomly selected students on the new Judicial Board...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Bored of Justice | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

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