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...misunderstand me. These cheerleaders weren't like Bright's Favorite...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Sioux Ambush Icemen's Title Hopes | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

Talking more in five seconds than most healthy adults talk in their natural lifetimes, this guy is a boil on the body politic. It's for school children, he says. Stop shaking my hand, I say. No, you misunderstand me, it's for school children, he says. You're annoying, I say. School children, he explains. Shut up, I explain...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Bothersome Bits of Harvard | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

...misunderstand me. I like to keep at least 1,000 miles away from South of the Border. I'm allergic to black velvet paintings...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Who Cares Anyway? | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

...media frequently lacks any sort of scientific discretion when covering the world of science. Reporters should be able to see past blanket press releases and ask questions, the right ones. If the media analyzes more, the readership will learn more and won't misunderstand discoveries...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Mixing Research With Reporting | 8/5/1986 | See Source »

...American and a Latin American, have been jailed by the police of an unnamed country's rightist dictatorship. The crime: distribution of subversive leaflets. In their cell, they converse clumsily, united less by ideology than by a rapturous and surprisingly sophisticated passion for literature. Yet at every turn they misunderstand each other, responding to received images from each other's popular culture rather than to the actual person across the room. The American is a wandering would-be writer. He cheerily acknowledges that he knows no Spanish and thus has not even read the flyers they handed out. It hardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Home and Away Principia Scriptoriae | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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