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...like laughing at Americans, and this production gives us ample opportunity to chortle at some completely pathetic specimens. For all their intellectual cultivation, the professors squabble loudly over the tab at restaurants, blatantly betray their sexual indiscretions and generally embarass themselves. The audience cringes at their sycophantic adoration of all things British...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Good Acting, Hollow Americans | 3/18/1993 | See Source »

...haven't heard about Secret Santa at Kirkland, let me assure you that it is quite a production. The favorite gift: a skit engineered to embarass any self-respecting santee. Kirkland's famously well-lit dining hall fills up early and stays crowded. Every accidental clink of glass hushes the crowd in anticipation of another announcement. Some days the skits begin at five o'clock and don't stop until after seven. People sing, people dance, people ride each other like horses. It's a week-long festival for the talented and the aggressively untalented alike. Adams may have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine House | 3/13/1993 | See Source »

...block, because everyone around it is infants. Rensselaer is ranked ninth in the nation. That's a joke. RPI may be young and fiery, but until it learns to play defense, it won't get very far. The pollsters are just giving them the nod so they don't embarass the ECAC. Which is what the league is: an embarrassment...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Icemen Still Waiting for Test | 12/18/1992 | See Source »

Candidates also swept through tiny. RhodeIsland yesterday, where 22 Democratic delegatesand 15 Republican delegates are at stake. As inall of New England, a recession-encouraged protestvote for Buchanan could embarass Bush there...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reviving the Glory of Old Dixie | 3/10/1992 | See Source »

These conspiracy theories are more the stuff of the John Birch Society than of responsible conservative journalism. It seems likely that the use of Hitler's words was an attempt by a few staff members to embarass the Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Pritchett, who was selected by the Review's trustees after the staff had elected someone else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Have They No Decency? | 10/16/1990 | See Source »

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