Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors of this century. The Baby in the Icebox, and Other Short Fiction, a new collection of many of Cain's previously out of print early stories and dialogues, traces his development from a moderately well-known yet inconsequential magazine writer in the East to the father of a minor literary movement in California...
Perhaps this lapse into cinematic superficiality is a problem inherent in the nature of the short, low-budget film. In Dozens this is merely a minor flaw far outweighed by superb directorial sensibility and the outstanding performance of the actors. The camera rarely strays from Margolies, who plays a sensitive mother as well as the crude, masculine game of dozens. Her experience as a stage actress, primarily at the Stage One Company, lies beneath her effortless virtuosity. Her Sally is highly feminine, but not stylized--a pig-tailed, funky adult who speaks low and jivey. Mason is a naturally-grinning...
...constitution committee that drafted the proposal had hoped that the constitution would be ratified with only minor changes and that the new council would begin functioning during the upcoming spring term. But several members of the Faculty Council said after their meeting with the implementation committee that they doubted whether that timetable would hold...
...will be at least two years before we know how useful the radiation treatment is," Trentham said, adding, "There are only minor side effects but we don't know how long the treatment lasts and repeated dosages could be harmful...
...minor flaws, the parody rates as a definite success. And as such, it begs the question of why it is so much better than its deservedly ignored counterpart, The Harvard Lampoon itself. One thoroughly unresearched and unsubstantiated theory may help explain the difference...