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...comedies and pornographic films, Sunday Lovers totally lacks the substance of either. It could never be a plece of art, but if it had only replaced the fireworks of Love American Style with explicit sex, it might at least have been a bearable porno flick instead of a tiresome dud...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Love Weekend Style | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

Early the next morning an overflow crowd jams a $125-a-plate breakfast in Omaha, the staging point for a swing through western Iowa. It is only 8:30, but Bush, once a dud on the stump, is wound up. The veins on his neck are standing out and his eyes are flashing as he condemns the quality of Jimmy Carter's aides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: George Is Coming On Strong | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...real nuke or a deceptive dud? For years South Africa's many enemies, as well as its few friends, have speculated about the possibility that Pretoria's white apartheid regime might secretly be developing nuclear weapons. South Africa not only has the required technical expertise, but also possesses almost one-fifth of the world's known uranium deposits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Nuclear Clue | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...matter, what they came up with was something called New Foundation. It foundered. Some people yawned; others were derisive. Mainly, everyone was magnificently uninspired. New Foundation just did not have the ring of the great slogans of yesteryear: New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society. Still, the Carter dud was only a conspicuous example of the general anemia that has beset sloganeering in recent years. Some believe, for example, that the commercial practice of the art has fallen into something of a slump partially because advertising now gives so much attention to research-based claims that it has somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Slogan Power! Slogan Power! | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Penders brought with him his 7-ft. Sudanese center Dud Malwal Tongal, whom he had previously hoped to bring to 116th and Broadway. The Columbia admissions office, however, felt Dud hadn't made enough progress in the English language course he was taking and rejected him, which increased Penders' disenchantment with what he perceived as a lack of administration support for the basketball program...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lion and the Thorn | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

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