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...with the Tower was its poor construction, not its design. Yet we are asked to see the charred hulk of the Tower as a symbol of something more. "Maybe we should just leave it standing like it is," says a dejected Paul Newman, "as a monument to all the bullshit in the world...
...have to ignore lines like that if you're going to enjoy The Towering Inferno, but the view that the movie itself is a monument to bullshit and concupiscence is unfounded. It's very easy to hype a popular film by calling it a cinematic masterpiece, as Pauline Kael has done so unfortunately with movies like Shampoo and Last Tango in Paris. The disaster film is an urban adventure, like a police or hospital melodrama, but the very magniture of the pseudo-events it chronicles--possible only on screen--give it a dignity beyond its intrinsic merit. When combined with...
Anyone who wrote a ten-pope paper was guaranteed a "B"--so long as it wasn't pure bullshit," Lewontin says. Those who were in the market for "A"s could write longer, 15 or 20 pages. There was some confusion about what criteria were used in awarding "A"s, but Lewontin insists the emphasis was on quality as well as quantity. The only other requirement was an ungraded examination, which students were encouraged to take anonymously...
When I hear Ford say let's forget about the past, I get more enraged. That's bullshit. My brother-in-law wakes up every day without his legs. How can he forget? I suffered a great deal. I can think of days when I lived from one morphine shot to the next. Is it true that this was a waste...
...indeed the slushy ice surface and the elbow merchants from Ithaca, N.Y., took their toll Friday night. ("It was a very, very brutal game," Thomas said.) But nobody is buying it as the reason for such a convincing defeat, least of all Roth. "Bullshit" was all he had to say about using the Cornell game as a lone excuse...