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...goes if you're a nervous first-year eager to polish up your GPA. So we scrambled through the bathroom crud for another 45 minutes, finished the assignment and trudged over to the Science Center to hand...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: That Problem Set Doesn't Really Matter Much | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...What a bunch of narssistic...crud. These two were so full of themselves and their supposed sensitivity tot the problems of the 20th century... Good self P.R." --Anonymous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The People Strike Back At the Artists | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...they know from the street may not be what the heartland wants to hear. The message may be cleansing or hateful; the lyrics and limericks may expand or debase the language. And if X-rated pop adheres to writer Theodore Sturgeon's useful rule that "90% of everything is crud," most of it may be awful -- just dirty, not funny or erotic. But even at its grossest, the form is a vital expression of the resentments felt by a lot of people. Get used to it, America: we live in a four-letter world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...undies, gives his pertinent measurements and phone number and caters to all comers. You could hear the show's executive producer, Al Goldstein, mouth off on any subject that grazed his mind: Gloria Steinem ("great legs"), a play he'd seen in London ("Skip it. Miss it. Crud"), health violations at local restaurants. On Midnight Blue and other sex shows, for the basic cable subscription price, you could watch all this and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA Turned On? Turn It Off | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...their parts, then adjourn to a hotel till bus call the next morning. Thus pass strings of small cities: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi; Pueblo, Albuquerque, El Paso. Four months into the tour, everyone is tired, everyone feels cut adrift, almost everyone suffers from a cough known as the "bus crud." The play, coincidentally, is a musical confection, On the Twentieth Century, about the giddy, romantic life of theatrical types traveling cross-country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iowa: Rolling Toward Peoria | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

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