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...Since we've had to organize them ourselves, the seniors who have done it have put more into it," says Rich, a senior who helped plan the fests. Because the College has officially banned the bars, none of the seniors who are behind the parties would publicly confess to planning them...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Senior Bar Hopping | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

...consisted of systematic degradation, maddening isolation and the grinding $ waste of years, punctuated by episodes of ghastly pain. But, presented artlessly, this is not the stuff of compelling drama. There is not enough filth in the corners, not enough ambiguity when the movie shows prisoners resisting the pressure to confess to "war crimes." Chetwynd has recruited an able cast, led by Michael Moriarty, Jeffrey Jones and Paul Le Mat, and he does well with the bitter ironies implicit in visits to the prison by celebrity peace delegations. But at best he generates only a distant compassion for his subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Remembering Viet Nam | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...idea, I must confess, is not original. Recently, a wild boar attacked a Pakistan Air Force F-16 as it was taking off and, according to UPI, the animal knocked off the nosewheel. Although the pilots ejected safely, the $30 million plane was completely destroyed when it crashed on the runway as a result of the attack...

Author: By John M. Glazer, | Title: Boar Wars | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...salesmen peddling an obsolete product: themselves. They take an artist's pride in the egregious frauds they dream up ) to sell some aluminum siding to a gullible homeowner. Ask them why they spend all this creative energy either on the job or drinking it off, and they will probably confess that they do it to support a family they rarely see and in whom they have no more than a patron's interest. The losers among them, like Tilley (Danny DeVito), just want to score big. The winners, like B.B. (Richard Dreyfuss), just want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shark Parade TIN MEN | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...have to confess I have my doubts about having two different ranks of tenured faculty," Spence said. "It's sort of disguising a way to havedifferent standards...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Dean Nixes Proposal For Student Input | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

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