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More than 20 students in at least three separate groups cheated in Physics S-1 last summer. It was the grossest incident of organized cheating that has been discovered at Harvard. The students were caught when Bamberg discovered that they could not explain how they had arrived at their correct multiple-choice answers...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Confusing Means And Ends | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

...would be the grossest distortion to pretend that editorial cartoonists are all Goyas in a hurry. Nothing inspires bromides like a deadline. Artists against the clock have too often relied on labels and fatigued metaphors to make their point. Back in 1925, The New Yorker lampooned the journeyman cartoonist with his crayoned clichés: the literalized Sea of Public Indignation; the bearded Radical; the masked thief with his tag of Crime Wave; the debt-ridden Commuter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Editorial Cartoons: Capturing the Essence | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

Somewhat reluctantly, Nixon observed that "this additional material I am now furnishing may further damage my case"-clearly one of the grossest understatements of his many Watergate pronouncements. Noting more realistically that "a House vote of impeachment is, as a practical matter, virtually a foregone conclusion," he said that he would voluntarily give the Senate every tape transferred to Special Prosecutor Jaworski by Judge Sirica. If he did not, of course, the Senate would readily have acquired them during its trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST WEEK: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

...What is the grossest thing ever thrown on the Garden ice by a fan? (Hint, think of something really gross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North Station Follies: The 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden' Quiz | 3/20/1974 | See Source »

...gastrointestinal tract and a rather florid disposition toward suicide. This may also have been the intention of Director Ferreri. Unfortunately, however, he hasn't the wit or style or inventiveness to outrage. Ferreri is the kind of clumsy film maker whose deadeningly literal style could turn even the grossest affront into a piddling bromide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Weight Watchers | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

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