Word: junks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the Vietnamese refugees have been subjected to extortion several times. First, illegal ship brokers in Viet Nam demand 20 to 35 taels of gold ($6,000 to $10,500 on the Saigon market) to put a family of six on a fishing junk with 150 other people. When the ships near the Thai coast, Thai naval patrols sometimes climb aboard and rob the refugees of their remaining money and belongings. At least 1,000 boat people from Viet Nam are currently living in abject squalor on a stretch of beach in Songkhla, near the Malaysian border. These refugees...
Face it--you didn't come to Harvard for the food. And that's a good thing, because between the swill they serve at the Union and the kind of junk you're liable to pick up between beers at some of the local taverns, your digestive tract is in for a long, gaseous summer. After all, if you feel like eating--and it's become a remarkably popular pastime here over the years--you've only got three choices, none of which is going to earn you a place in the dietician's Hall of Fame: Harvard food (which...
Okay, it's around midnight and you're hungry. What do you do? If you're a true American youth, you'll head for the junk food. And the Square is replete with junk food, particularly that all-American favorite, pizza. Some people, you know, just don't feel their days (or nights) are complete unless they get to fry the roofs of their mouths with hot tomato sauce and gooey cheese. So for those fanatics, and even for normal folks who like to challenge their alimentary canals now and then, here's the scoop on pizzerias in the Square...
...Some who grasp those charged serpents will themselves incandesce in celebrity for a little while and then wink out (goodbye, Clifford Irving; goodbye, Nina van Pallandt): defunct flashlights, dead fireflies. Thus they will have obeyed Warhol's Law, first propounded by Andy Warhol, the monsignor of transience and junk culture: "In the future, everybody will be famous for at least 15 minutes." But many survive long after the deadline. Their 15 minutes stretch into years and years, until the public, whose adulation sometimes conceals a hard little rock of vindictiveness, wishes that, after all, the 15-minute rule...
...that June is here, junk movies are busting out all over. Capricorn One is the first decent one of the lot: it kills two hours with a breathless progression of incredible plot twists and daredevil aerial stunts. Even at its silliest-which is quite silly-this thriller makes The Greek Tycoon seem like a slow yacht to China. At its best, Capricorn One almost matches the trashy highs of Coma, the junk movie of the year to date...