Word: et
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, this Golden Child has ET's golden touch, Murphy has the swashbuckling bravado of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the demon has satanic transformations a la Poltergeist. More miraculous than the storyline, though, is the fact that this movie is, indeed, entertaining. The credit, of course, goes entirely to Murphy, who revels in the silliness and delivers his lines with effortless hilarity...
...vitality of a discipline is the existence of disparate points of view among researchers in that discipline. Yet Women's Studies professors everywhere speak with one voice. Are there any Phyllis Schlaflys teaching Women's Studies? Any Jerry Fallwells? Anyone who disagrees significantly with Gloria Steinem, Bela Abzug, et al? I didn't think so. So what makes Women's Studies any more academically viable than any other political agenda...
...been doing a lot of door-knocking--train stations in the morning, Bingos at night," said Howe, who describes his district as one where victory comes from "getting out and meeting people." He said Parker has been doing the same--"attending banquets, retirement parties, ribbon-cuttings, et cetera...
...reviews of Watson's book, whichappeared in a recent issue of the journalBibliotheque de Humanisme et Renaissance stated inpart: "If this book doesn't get [Watson] promotionto full professor at Harvard then the Big Booktheory of academic promotion is less reliable thanany of us--even those of us who reached the summitby piling little books one on top of another--haveever believed...
...Founding of Harvard College", Morison remarks, "From the small college here planted in sylvestribus et incultis locis on the edge of the Western Wilderness, Harvard University has grown, and higher education in the United States is largely dervied. So we are gathered here to commemorate our founders and early benefactors; to thank God for the faith, overriding all prudentobjections and practical difficulties, thatsustained them through poverty and struggle, in soambitious and so excellent an enterprise...