Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...managed to appease Harvard's mammoth bureaucracy, it demonstrates an unconscionable--even frightening--lack of understanding of what it means to represent the student body. Any controversial issue--like the Anti-Finals Club Resolution that was voted on last night--throws the council into a frenzy of self-doubt, confusion, and terror over misrepresenting the students...
John Adams' victory over Thomas Jefferson in the presidential election of 1796 might not have been due to Adams' strident handbills, but it gave birth to a tradition in American politics that still flourishes: accentuating the negative. The rule is: when in doubt, attack; when attacked, counterattack. History will show that in New Hampshire last week a Vice President's hard- hitting, negative television ads in response to an insurgent Senator's first strike pushed the Vice President to victory. On the Democratic side, two rivals strafed each other over the airwaves and basically reached a draw...
...goal now is to get number one," said Harvard Coach Bill Cleary, sporting a grin for the first time in two weeks. "We're ready to go. St. Lawrence is without a doubt, one of the best teams around. They're big, they're strong, and they've got good speed...
...amateurish level. Rather, it is simply too ambitious and sprawling, too complicated and confused. Lee has a remarkable visual sense and a truly original way of constructing a story. In She's Gotta Have It, these talents came together to create an innovative, exciting new type of comedy. I doubt, however, that any moviemaker could construct a coherent whole out of the slew of elements Lee attempts to treat in School Daze...
...have no doubt that Spike Lee is one of the most promising moviemakers of the last five years. School Daze is a mess, a complex failure which nevertheless demonstrates that the unusual promise of the director of She's Gotta Have It is still there...