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...effect, in which a facade of liberal action hides an indolence and stagnation matched only by the indolence and stagnation of liberal rhetoric. The Lampoon may be an elephant, but HRBSA isn't mouse enough to take it on, and neither organization can hope to match the grey hulk of Harvard. It's yet another example of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum twiddling each others' twaddle...

Author: By Brick Maverick, | Title: In Hilaritate Tristis, In Tristia Hilaris | 5/25/1977 | See Source »

...devises a scheme to save the world from nuclear destruction, realizes the plan requires large quantities of a mysterious element unknown to even the best high-school chemistry textbooks, traces the world's only supply of the element to the cargo hold of the sunken Titanic, miraculously raises the hulk from the depths of the North Atlantic, and then defends its catch against some nasty Soviet spies and an even nastier hurricane. Cussler certainly deserves brownie points for originality, but he doesn't win any for intelligibility. Even with a handful of standard love scenes and assassinations thrown...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Sinking a Bestseller | 3/4/1977 | See Source »

This battered hulk of proud, angelic bark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

Meadow's major motivation became clear, even to himself, only recently. An athlete and art enthusiast for most of his years, Meadow found that bodybuilding "allows me to incorporate art and sport. I built myself into a hulk of flesh and now am sculpting myself out. Self-discipline is my chisel...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: Scott Meadow, Esthetic Bodybuilder | 2/27/1976 | See Source »

...Inside this hulk you see before you is a frustrated song-and-dance man just screaming to get out," quipped Actor Rock Hudson before his arrival in London for the stage musical I Do! I Do! Hudson, who opened last week with Singer-Dancer Juliet Prowse in the two-character marital spoof, should have kept the screamer locked within. The London Sun found Rock's singing so far off-key as to make "timid dogs sit on their haunches and howl at the moon." As for his hoofing ability, the paper's critic was relieved to find that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1976 | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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