Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduate school administrators in an effort to extend stage slots. "Some years Brustein just handed down a calendar without ever asking us for our approval. One year they assigned us our spring vacation as performance time. Another time it was Thanksgiving weekend. And they always considered our reading and exam periods prime weeks for us to perform...
...late October, the and LSAT registration rush is on at the "Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center" in Boston. It's a little more than a month away from the next exam, and students are crowded around the front desk, eagerly filling our forms and signing over $300 checks $50 refundable) without a flinch. School shirts and jackets reveal a cross-section of Harvard, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, and Wellesley students who have made the pilgrimage to the spanking new Kaplan center on the ninth floor of the Park Square Building...
...first X-rated dummy on the block," is everything Corky is not -- bossy, crude, with a mouth that should be washed out with Pine-Sol. The crowds love him, and Corky seems headed for the top and a T.V. contract -- until, inexplicably, he balks at taking a medical exam required by the network. Panicked by his agent's reassurances that he's only scared of success, Corky flees with Fats to the Catskills, where he grew up, partly to reminisce and partly to look up Peggy Ann (Ann-Margret), the girl he worshipped from afar in high school. He still...
...real tension. It's obvious much too early that Corky is a split personality -- the film's first scene establishes the split when, after meekly trying to win over an inattentive audience, Corky suddenly goes berserk and showers them with abuse. His refusal to undergo the medical exam practically signals that "this man is insane...
Week five (or seven including two non-league encounters) brought Princeton to Cambridge, but Kubacki, injured the week before in Philadelphia, had to watch from the sidelines. What he saw was as pleasing as a final exam. The Tigers clawed their way to a 24-0 lead, and even an incredible Tim Davenport-inspired comeback which came within a bobbled snap from center of immortality left the final margin...