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...designing portable restrooms, and manna and nectar refreshment concessions for the up-coming gala bimillenium. ("We're expecting millions of tourists," Mary tells Brinkley.) The bumbling corruption of Soviet-American disarmament negotiators and the CIA's school for assassins are cleverly ridiculed, but the caricatures contain more than a morsel of truth. Yet the whole "message," if it is indeed a message, is almost too absurd...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: The Resurrection of a Superhero | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...might infer from these character outlines, The Last Chance is almost too delicious a novel to take seriously, to read any other way than curled up in bed late in the night, never looking away from the pages until the last savory morsel has been devoured. But toward the end of the meal, as depression threatens to dampen the reader's enthusiasm, the stark reality behind the lascivious, B-rated fluff emerges...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: In Search of One's Own Middle Ground | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...famished Lions accordingly greeted the Crimson quintet that invaded Levien Gymnasium like a rare and refreshing maroon morsel of manna...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Columbia Lions Maul Hoopsters Despite Slipshod Play in Second Half | 2/14/1976 | See Source »

...family comedies in which the. characters shout a lot, laugh uproariously, cry a little and ponder life's minor ironies over a full dinner plate. At a guess, the playgoer should arrive gorged, since the theatrical repast at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is just an amiable morsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Pasta, Everyone? | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...Charles, ridiculed and down-graded during the early and faultering stages of emergence, struggling against the interest and facilities and innate attitudinal bias of a male oriented community, striving and pushing the nose of its program into a male-oriented and dominated sport, gathering and cherishing every scrap and morsel of attention, keeping logs and impossible hours, answering each derogation with a confidence foreshadowing with a wisdom and clairvoyance a perception far beyond its maturity, thrusting itself into the midst of its sport and claiming the only championship in crew that the Harvard community could muster. Radciffe crew outsone, outrowed...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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