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Though some of the contributions described here were the result of a few bursts of inspiration, there is not one that would have reached fulfillment were it not for the sense of personal responsibility that fueled its originator's persistence during the day-by-day grind necessary for success. In this, medicine is no different than any other form of endeavor. For when all is said and done, it is the perspiration that makes the difference. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made the point much more elegantly...
...didn't even have any homework. On the early morning of Sunday the 14th-arguably the last day of leisure before the grind of schoolwork began-Harvard students were living it up at several parties down by the River. But the joy was short-circuited. Four parties, in Adams, Kirkland, Leverett and Winthrop Houses were broken up between midnight and 1 a.m. by Harvard police on request from tutors in the houses...
Corliss implies grind-house films are all the rage today simply because they are ridiculous. Like they're cool because they're so awful. I don't think so. We do not love exploitation films because we want to relive a past decade of innocence. Exploitation filmmakers have proved that creative, classic and socially relevant films can be made on modest budgets. These movies hit close to home. We are in our houses, and there are nymphomaniac cannibalistic freaks waiting to feast. This is real! This is myth! BROOK KING Pittsburgh...
...Pihsnamwohs" (showmanship spelled backward), ballyhooed his 1944 birth-of-a-baby film, Mom and Dad, so successfully that it ran for decades and, according to the Grindhouse authors, earned $100 million. And in the late '50s, as bold European films lured the art-house crowds, a new breed of grind gurus revived sexploitation...
Francis Ford Coppola made nudie films; Martin Scorsese's first feature went out on the grind circuit. Meyer (with his giddy editing style), Radley Metzger (who made elegant variations on Euro-smut) and R.L. Frost (a versatile imagist, heavy on the rough stuff) could have played in the majors. But most exploiteurs were amateurs--like Doris Wishman, with her mesmerizingly absurd tales of good women gone bad. The husband-and-wife team of Michael and Roberta Findlay, who, Weldon says admiringly, "made the most twisted softcore adult movies of them all," later concocted the fake snuff film, Snuff. They specialized...