Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighter-bomber that the White House proposes to sell to Egypt is the current version of a design that is now 23 years old and has no advantages over the F-15s and F-16s except price (as little as $5 million). But the planes are already the work horses of the Royal Saudi Air Force and could be useful to Egypt at least for defensive purposes. Since they carry two 20mm electric machine guns and 7,000 Ibs. of bombs, they can also be used effectively to support ground troops. Egyptian pilots who trained in Soviet aircraft with Russian...
Anybody that is, except Harvard, and this is all that remains on Taylor's "things-to-do" chart for the season. He wants to wipe out a current eight-game losing streak versus Harvard, beat his former colleague Billy Cleary, and give the Yale fans one more big win before the Zamboni, comes off for the final time...
...remaining 45 minutes of the first act attempting to revive my two completely numb legs, and the second act in 33 Dunster St. I chickened out. I spent much of that restless night dreaming the post-mortem dream reprinted above. Now, three days later, I offer no excuses except the following good ones: 1) My legs, as I have already pointed out, had fallen almost irretrievably asleep. 2) I was growing just a trifle annoyed at the folks sitting next to me--management "plants," I reckoned, the magnitude of whose outbursts of laughter stood in inverse proportion to that...
Everybody on the Crimson bench except the coaches and managers saw playing time in the first half as Harvard tried to wear down the Judges. Twelve hoopsters made it into the scoring column to combine for a blistering 62 per cent field goal average at halftime...
Coma would be negligible, except that it epitomizes everything wrong with most movie thrillers these days: they have become clinical. Directors like Michael Crichton and William Friedkin put their audiences under the scalpel, and so far audiences have responded enthusiastically. Even good movies like Marathon Man are so crammed with sliced hands and slit throats that they're hard to watch, and films have to be gorier and gorier now to make an impression. It's part of a de-sensitizing, or perhaps, in the case of Coma, an anesthetizing of the audience. No wonder audiences are bored with those...