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Between meals and copious snacks, Candy and Sandy adjust the two movie screens and tend the stereo. There are occasional misunderstandings. As Sandy puts it delicately, "At first some people thought we came with the day rate. But all in all, the guys in the rock groups are better to serve than drunken businessmen...
...this evil spirit, Director Friedkin and Writer Blatty go in for cheap shocks and crude novelty. There are gruesome details of an encephalogram being taken on the girl in search of some physical origin for her symptoms; there are also scenes showing her genitals being maimed with a crucifix, copious vomiting, a cacophony of obscenities and miscellaneous bestiality...
Readers may be disappointed by the dryness of the Hardwicks' plot summaries, or the emphasis on purely physical description in their character sketches (not a word about Micavvber's improvidence). But there is rich recompense in the book's final section-248 pages of copious quotations from Dickens himself. These serve the true purpose of such a reference work: to remind the reader that the original is irreplaceable...
...present," one admissions officer wrote, "the task of evaluation requires much reading and interpretation of grades, recommendations, and activities. To add copious evaluation in lieu of grades would be frowned upon in light of 5500 applications...
...such a bad model to imitate. Moreover, after a silly initial episode, Diana has been improving. Last week she took charge of one of her store's big projects, with nary a question about her capability and no cutely condescending womlibby jokes. A week earlier, she endured, with copious charm, the bureaucratic idiocies of trying to replace her stolen immigration card. The regular supporting players (Richard Shull, Robert Moore) are all truly supportive and like its model, the show is blessedly intelligent. It's still pretty lightweight work for the very talented Diana Rigg, whose roles have ranged...