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However diverting all the 1950s teenage nostalgia might be, Christopher Lloyd, as the crazy scientist, is in disputably the movie's comedic highpoint. Lloyd plays this gentle madman as a potentially brilliant inventor whose complicated schemes skirl the edges of insanity. His long, white hair flying and his glazed eyes wide open with wild intensity, Lloyd enters into the spirit of his role with a full and considered seriousness that makes Doc truly and artistically humorous...
While that era in some ways marked a highpoint of BSA activities, it also signaled a decline in that organization's preeminence within the Black community as the BSA began to focus on Black issues on campus, earlier community projects--such as tutoring and political support for public schools in the predominantly Black Roxbury area--were neglected by the group. This shift in emphasis drew fire from some Black students, particularly from the Seymour Society, formed...
...talent to the amount, and the teaching of Barnaby has paid huge dividends. And when it was time to keep them at the Home Cup. Stimpson, a consummate team player, deviled most of her satisfaction from the effect of the triumph on others. "The Howe Cup was the absolute highpoint," she recalls "it felt so good because in a way we won it for Jack, it was our way of thanking him for everything...
...GENERALLY pacific Dutch capital, the highpoint of the political summer is often the forgotten invitation to an ambassadorial cocktail party or the unreturned phone call. But this past summer in the Hague saw an angry American community denounee the Dutch government and the Peoples Republic of China sever diplomatic relations. Because Holland has long been a close ally of the United States and was one of the first members of the United Nations to recognize the Beijing government, the summer's events beg the question of what this tiny lowland state--traditionally and self-consciously moderate--could have done...
Yardling Debbie Zimic proved to be the highpoint of the Crimson evening with her three first place finishes in the 50, 100 and 200 yard freestyles--her time of 55.08 seconds in the 100 free doubling as a personal lifetime best. Exhibiting Harvard's newly-acquired freestyle depth, fellow freshman Jeanne Floyd nabbed two second places behind Zimic in the 50 and the 100, while sophomore Kathy Davis took a third...