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After students organized a campaign to begin an independent evaluation system, the council this week reversed its earlier decision by a vote of 27-21. "We felt that this new system would surely be worse than the one we have now," said Mort Tenzer, a professor of economics at UConn...
...Thompson, who at 49 seems to have lost his bite. In his best-selling new book Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s, the old anger has been replaced by a wistful snit, as if Lenny Bruce had lived long enough to turn into another Mort Sahl...
...Drugs, Rock & Roll is part of the Satirical Subversive series at the ART which brought us such satirists as Mort Sahl and Paul Zaloom. Unfortunately, as a satirist, Bogosian is only fair. He relies too heavily on stereotypes, especially in a bit about a high-powered, slimy executive of a type that is already familiar from Mamet and movies like Wall Street. In another somewhat ineffective monologue, Bogosian creates a Spinal Tap-like over-the-hill rocker, and the jokes seem stale and repetitive...
...past, the Winthrop grill has been known as "The Bat Cave," but this year's managers are considering, among other suggestions, renaming it "Mort's Place" and showing the Morton Downey Jr. show at 11:30 p.m. every night. "We want to turn it into a house-oriented activity," says Choo, "rather than just going down and getting a hamburger...
...ripostes like "Don't be a smartass with me, punk," or an escort out the door. He ignites the crowd -- mostly young males who appear to be bused in from the stands of some local sports arena -- into bursts of cheering, hoots of derision or their favorite chant: "Mort! . . . Mort! . . . Mort...