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...University police rescue four freshmen from a melting snow-drift outside Weld Hall. "Damnedest thing I ever saw," reports Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, who then informs the freshmen that they can have until May to take their make-up midterms...
...always thought Miss Minnelli's face deserving-of first prize in the beagle category. It is a face going off in three directions simultaneously: the nose always en route to becoming a trunk, blubber lips unable to resist the pull of gravity, and a chin trying its damnedest to withdraw into the neck, apparently to avoid responsibility for what goes on above...
...dash to their work as, respectively, the fire captain and the architect who combine their charisma to minimize loss of life when the world's tallest building goes up in flames. Faye Dunaway provides the film's highest moments of suspense by nearly falling out of the damnedest dress you ever saw on several occasions. But looked at from an accountant's point of view-the only sensible one for pictures of this sort these increments are minuscule considering the crowded disaster market...
...most exciting race was the two-mile run as Harvard clinched the meet behind Jim Keefe's win and freshman Stein Rafto's third-place finish. "It started out to be a nice comfortable run and then turned out to be the damnedest race," McCurdy said...
...films about institutions," he has said, "is like being on the track of the Abominable Snowman. You're looking for cultural spoor wherever you go. A hospital or a high school is as much a ghetto as central Harlem, because most of us don't have the damnedest idea what goes on in them...