Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banners ranged from the traditional "Go Sox," to the cliched "Ya Gotta Believe," to the more bizarre, such as "Go Drago, Dick the Red!" and the seemingly Muhammed Ali-inspired message, "The Sox have it made, Cinci Can't Make the Grade, Like the A's They Will Fade...
...ostracized as a despised pariah after she confessed her informant role. The atmosphere of conspiracy and danger provided a sense of action and purpose that her life was lacking. "I was really nervous, but I was intrigued by the whole thing," she once said. "It was like a grade-B movie...
Finally, Thursday through Saturday, the New Theatre on Holyoke Street features a group that makes Kiss look like performers in a grade school Christmas play. The Tubes are synonomous with the word outrageous. Their lead singer goes under the name "Quay Lude" and song titles run along the lines of "Mondo Bondage" and "White Punks on Dope." Draw your own conclusions...
...Magnificent Seven. In the fifth grade, this was one of my favorite movies, and a very popular favorite at Lincoin Avenue School. Not having seen it since then, I'm reluctant to stick my neck out. There are a bunch of stars in it (Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, maybe, or Montgomery Clift), and it is a western. I do know that it was lifted from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and that the great Japanese director was so angered by the Hollywoodization of his classic that he made Yojimbo to satirize the genre, and particularly the joke of American-individualist hero...
...selecting top-grade people who will have an innate interest in maintaining academic freedom...