Word: crud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard-core sex was obviously the hard core of the film's structure. Cut the crud and all you have left is a lot of tedious - not to say infantile - intellectual foreplay. Abduction cannot be taken seriously enough to laugh at, and natural curiosity about links with the Hearst case should be sternly stifled...
...Sinking a 5,000-ft. well costs about $125,000. If a driller hits, he still can be disappointed by the mixture of steam and briny water that hisses to the surface. Sometimes it is too cool to use efficiently; often it is laden with minerals and impurities that "crud up" turbine blades and even clog the bored hole itself. The steam can, in fact, be cleaned, but unfortunately the process is expensive. Its heat can be transferred to a non-corrosive gas and fed to the turbine, but that is inefficient...
...moral" with which Aesop ended all his fables. There is a great deal more satisfaction in actually doing something than there is in just admiring something someone else has done. Everyone has heard of Rembrandt, but who knows or cares about John Jones, who spends crates of crud to cross the ocean and gaze uncomprehendingly at his pictures...
...PRODUCTION of Pirates of Penzance which opened at Agassiz last night is a lot like the claws of a Maine lobster: there are a few enjoyable morsels buried inside, but you have to wade through a pile of crud to get at them. The Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players have patched together the most remarkably uneven performance they have given in recent years...
...with or without Maddox, should be in Sunny Point by this Friday. As an editorialist in the Washington Daily News pointed out: "There is something perverse about the grand old American habit of using oceans and rivers as convenient dump holes for all manner of poisonous crud. There must be a better...