Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday the team arrived in New York, five of the Crimson fencers and myself went to a cheapo-deluxe porno double feature which matched "A Hard Man's Good to Find" and "Little Miss Innocent." Well, "A Hard Man" could well be re-titled "Good Porno is Hard to Find" because the film--shot, I'm convinced, on a 98-cent budget with Bell and Howell N-14 movie camera--consisted entirely of one man (middle aged, paunchy, inconsequential) lapping a variety of women with the world's longest tongue, mostly in the ears and on the eyebrows...
...problem for Miss Atwood's antiheroine is that she has been divorced from far more than a husband...
...urbanized-worse, Americanized-friends seem to make no connections at all even within their own free-floating selves. Like a supercasual Dante, Miss Atwood pronounces sentence upon her generation of lost and damned: "Any one of us could have amnesia for years and the others wouldn't notice...
...devised her hell for pseu-dosophisticated young Canadians and a make-do formula for living in it: "If it hurts, invent a different pain." Like a good Canadian, Miss Atwood conceives of the ultimate pain as a kind of terminal frostbite: the frozen state of feeling nothing, even pain. Her narrator thinks she may have arrived at this last circle, only to discover she is not quite so dead as she presumed...
Most undergraduates who miss classes today will be people who have yet to buy notebooks for the second semester, or those whose instinctual reaction to the words "union" and "strike" is "support the demands." In the "Us Against Them" world of students, faculty and administrators, this knee-jerk reaction is understandable. Beneath the surface, however, the purported convergence of interest between graduate students and undergraduates is an uncertain proposition...