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...gain coddled, preferential treatment for courses: they have first-year seminars and receive occasional favoritism in Core lotteries. But these small perks are the exceptions that prove the rule. The academic system for Harvard undergraduates seems designed to frustrate intellectual curiousity and to keep first-year students safely in monstrous, impersonal, general introductory classes and exclusively first-year classes like Expository Writing and seminars...
...they both claimed as a victory, the two split up the company, with Griffin taking most of Resorts and Trump getting the uncompleted Taj Mahal. Griffin's older, debt-laden properties went into bankruptcy only two years later. Trump had to borrow an estimated $1 billion to finish the monstrous Taj. Ominously, the city's casino business, which had grown pell-mell during the '80s, abruptly stagnated...
...racial climate had been so poisoned that last week virtually everybody, upon hearing sketchy reports that blacks had beaten three Vietnamese men they had mistaken for Koreans, concluded that another monstrous outbreak of bigoted violence had occurred. It turned out that a black youth had fractured the skull of one Vietnamese with a hammer, but in a fight that started after a 13- year-old girl tossed a bottle through an apartment window. Immediately after the fracas, police hung a sign on the Vietnamese victim's apartment building: REWARD. THIS IS A BIAS ASSAULT CRIME SCENE. Wrote Daily News columnist...
...filmmakers would seem less likely candidates for TV than Lynch. His first feature, Eraserhead, was a dreamlike horror story about a couple taking care of a monstrous mutant baby. Blue Velvet, his bizarre 1986 black comedy, started with a severed ear and descended into sadomasochistic horror. Trained as a painter, Lynch has written song lyrics and directed a performance piece, Industrial Symphony No. 1, featuring a midget sawing wood and dozens of baby dolls lowered from the ceiling...
Bill Kastner of the U.S. Geological Survey office in Denver monitors the monstrous Ogallala Aquifer, that famous underground sponge that reaches from South Dakota to the high plains of Texas, touches eight states and embraces 174,000 sq. mi. In some places the water level has fallen 200 ft., leaving the balance between use and recharge from rainfall in precarious condition. Given a little hot dry weather and good farm prices that encourage increased grain planting, the irrigation pumps will begin to whir, in all likelihood sucking up more water than will be replaced...