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...works, has lost its character, now grinding like a Husker Du album played into a feather pillow. It is generally accepted that Strummer has no vocal talent, and this record provides precious little evidence to the contrary. Fortunately, on many tracks his voice is lost in the dirty guitar/synthesizer mess...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Full Of It | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

Although hackers have a complex code of etiquette, they are hard pressed to list rules to the game. "There are two rules that are almost accepted," says Charles S. Zender '86-'87. "One is that you can't say you're sorry if you mess up. The other is that if you do, you suffer hack punishment...

Author: By David Cook, | Title: Hacky Sackers Get Kicks in Harvard Yard | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

Early into the second act, however, things begin to fall apart. The well-designed graveyard is reduced to a mess of living room furnishings that seem to confuse the actors as much they do the audience. The added musical numbers formed than those in the first act. Blocking and movement are likewise confused, sloppily ad-libbed, and uncertain. It would thus appear that author Brendan Behan died at some point midway through the second act, leaving an outsider to piece together the remainder of his play from a largely illegible collection of notes...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: Agony and Ecstasy on the Mainstage | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...faculty has a responsibility to say 'You can't mess up the educational program,'" said Professor of Law Richard B. Stewart, chairman of the faculty's Ad Hoc Committee on the Law Review...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha jr., | Title: Law Faculty Votes Down Review's Comp Proposal | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...Yorker must have taught Wilkinson not to mess with success--why else would he use two two-syllable, nine-letter m-titles for his first two books? John McPhee has been writing about the same slice-of-life for all these years--why shouldn't Wilkinson...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Melts in the Hand, Not in the Mouth | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

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