Word: evens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nimoy), prized cold logic. Half-human, half pointy-eared green-blooded native of the planet Vulcan, the ship's science officer delighted in complex calculation, excelled at the mystical mindmeld and the mundane "Spock pinch," and continually confronted the fluctuations of Kirk's human emotions with rigorous Vulcan rationality. Even though he often sparred verbally and physically, with Kirk and Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the crusty old ship's surgeon from Georgia, Spock demonstrated that his heart was in the right place (about where the liver is in humans...
...better or worse, the movie's out, and initial response from both Trekdom and the outside world ("the mundanes") is ominous. When a True Trek Believer says "Well, maybe the sequel will be better" before the Enterprise even leaves dock, you know there are problems. The special effects beat the plot into submission. The dialogue is stilted, relegated to the role of filler between interminable shots of the Enterprise or "that...thing" which is threatening Earth. The actors are often mere props, going through the motions trying vainly to recapture long-lost glory, not given a chance to grow...
...swordsmen--now even at 2-2--will get a chance to push their record on the winning side when they meet Holy Cross...
Loree L. Farrar '81 recalls her helplessness after visiting a professor's office last year. He approached her as she left the office and "gave me a slobbering kiss on the mouth." She backed out the door and ran out. Farrar did not report the incident even though he telephoned her throughout the year to ask her out for lunch. She continued to refuse, pretending not to recognize the sexual implications, hoping he would finally give up. Farrar says she did not go to a dean because she though "it would have been his (the professor's) word against mine...
...entered prison as Arlie, a hating girl-bitch who whored, escaped prison and finally murdered a gas station attendant. And it tells the story of Arlene, that same woman, who emerges from a long spell in prison to find that the four walls on the outside can be even tougher to escape than the padded walls on the inside...