Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the zamboni of the mind has stopped, held fast in time by a tradition with seemingly little future. There is no way that any lover of Harvard hockey will let it travel and kid himself about the prospects for next year. Similarly, there is no way that Harvard hockey can sidestep the serious problems of talent and performance that have slowly dispatched it from the pedestal of collegiate hockey. ECAC DIVISION ONE FINAL STANDINGS 1. Boston University 17-4-2 2. New Hampshire 17-5-3 3. Cornell 16-6-0 4. Dartmouth 14-7-0 5. Clarkson...
...similar quality throughout the picture to keep any not too critical adult going through any matinee. Combine that with the pleasant lyricism of its skating scenes and you have the movie equivalent of a Judy Blume novel for teenagers: something you need not be ashamed to offer a kid and that you may find yourself more interested in than you would have suspected as you glance over her shoulder. - Richard Schickel
...Work, Kid...
...want to pay five bucks and travel to Boston for The Deer Hunter, try Midnight Express, right here in Harvard Square. Another politically naive and outright xenophobic Hollywood product, Midnight Express still succeeds in conveying a very forceful statement of individual will. The story of an arrogant American college kid who gets caught (through his own stupidity) trying to smuggle hash home for his friends, the movie works because it is beautifully filmed and edited, because the violence, though abundant, is carefully placed, and because it all really happened (almost) that...
...lonely, insufferable kid was father of the gifted man. Forbidden to read the lurid pulp magazines sold in the store, Isaac pored over science-fiction monthlies. He soon began to send them short stories. At an age when many fellow students were struggling to express themselves, Asimov, who entered Columbia University's Seth Low Junior College at age 15, helped pay for his college and graduate school with fiction that sold for a penny a word. At a time when many young men were looking for their first postcollege jobs, Asimov published what became one of the most anthologized...