Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alcoholic tide has been pushed higher by the fast-selling, inexpensive pop wines, which disguise their alcoholic content with sweet fruit flavors. These wines make the transition from soda pop to alcohol just one easy step. "Kids seem to look on the stuff as a zippy, sophisticated soft drink," says Houston's Bruner Lee, education director for the Texas Council on Alcoholism. "But this 'kiddie stuff,' this pop wine, contains 9% alcohol-about twice as much as beer." After the pop wine phase is over, the kids often go on to much stronger drink...
...their season-opening race last week, the Engineers easily handled Yale, defeating the Elis by seven seconds. In that race, however, MIT blasted out a full length lead by the first 500 meters of the race and was content to sit on the margin the rest...
...content of the album isn't up to Monty Python's usual standards, the packaging is even better than the cover of the first album--which was an actual jacket for Beethoven's Seventh with the Brueghel print scratched out in black crayon and "Monty Python" scrawled across it. There really are two Side Twos on the second side of this new album, and you have to drop your needle down a few times at random to discover them. Once you've figured this out, though, the thrill is gone forever...
...associations from previous films, or the personal lives of the people who made the film, or aspects of the film itself. The one thing that all forms of this syndrome have in common is that the put-down is gratuitous, and irrelevant to a consideration of the film's content. These are so formulaic, they could almost be filed and used over and over, simply rotating the names of who or what is being put down. To quote from the master, Time wrote that Zabriskie Point was the lowest elevation in the U.S., and that the film Zabriskie Point occupied...
While the HRPC and HUC recommendations were similar in their conclusions, they attacked ROTC from different premises. The HUC claimed that ROTC courses did not meet Harvard's standard academic criteria: that their content was flabby. HRPC contended that ROTC courses that it demanded of all other academic courses, and since ROTC courses had pre-professional orientations aimed at producing officers, the HRPC argued that ROTC courses should be removed from Harvard's liberal arts curriculum...