Word: cum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earth years -- the alien planet was colonized. But now, suddenly, it has fallen silent. Is it possible that this wild tale of rampaging monsters she keeps telling is true? A party of Marines is sent out to investigate, and Ripley reluctantly accompanies them as a sort of Cassandra-cum-consultant...
...graduated summa cum laude in the spring and won a Rhodes Scholarship. She will attend Oxford in the fall and study modern literature...
Almost immediately, however, the intellectuals' appreciation of some pop began to lose its prickly ironic edge. Robert Venturi, the father of architectural postmodernism, was not joking in Learning From Las Vegas (1972), his analysis-cum-celebration of neon, billboards and America's plebeian pop architecture. Soon the creators of kitsch were sophisticated enough to make fun of themselves even as they were creating new kitsch. The producers of TV's Batman (1966-68) played up the primary-color silliness for camp effect. "Charlie's Angels was great camp," says the show's co-producer, Aaron Spelling, "and the audience accepted...
...Visual and Environemtnal Studies (VES)Department is often fertile ground foridiosyncratic cum artsy projects. One of thebetter ones was handed in by Guy M. LaCrosby '86.A smooth-singing member of the Krokodiloes,LaCrosby is also a painter. His thesis was aseries of 30 oil and acrylic works done over aperiod of eight months. "The point was to see howI could break free of standardized ideas of how topaint," says LaCrosby. In his series ofprogressively more and more abstract andexpressionistic works, La Crosby does just that...
Graham holds a summa cum laude degree from the University of North Carolina and a Ph.D. from Harvard...