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Carswell's further discussion of the O. A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood. "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Response | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...Clearasil, this ever growing pimple symbolizes the worst social nightmares of the adolescents who are the prime audience for occult nonsense, especially since -- eeyuu! -- popping it turns out to be worse than living with it. The sequence is simply and efficiently done, and the film's prevailing mood -- a hopeless desire to pat everything into plausibility -- is abandoned. If The Believers could have done for father love what it does for acne anxiety, its creators might have had something here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Zitskrieg the Believers | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...class solemly returned to its seats. Between cracking jokes to Charles Doorite about the hopeless slush pile awaiting most young writers, Dick Wordsworth delved into the problems of creating well-wrought margins...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Rocker Dead in Writing Class | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...insurgency by knocking over tourist bingo games. Andrea Monfried will sojourn to Greece and promises to spray paint "Bono is God" on the Parthenon. And Mimi Sheller will slip down to Mexico to buy drugs. As usual, I'm staying here to do all the dirty work for a hopeless bunch of miscreants. Oh well. Until September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Janitor's Note: | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...attempts to blame foreigners for the country's racial problems, however, did not quiet opposition politicians. Zacharias de Beer, a founding member of South Africa's Progressive Federal Party, told a campaign rally that Foreign Minister Pik Botha was like a "poker player who knows his position is hopeless and who sometimes kicks the table over." The government's calculation, continued De Beer, was "that if you can get the voters to the polls to vote against ((A.N.C. Leader)) Oliver Tambo, then that will be just the injection that the National Party needs." But in truth, said ! De Beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Campaign of The Iron Fist | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

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