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...soon closed however, primarily because of strong shooting by the 1978 NIT most valuable player Ron Baxter who finished with 19 points. Despite several opportunities, the Crimson did not fold. Mannix and sophomore guard-forward Don Fleming each hitting for ten points in the stanza...
Friday night's game against the tough Columbia squad, a team that is still hoping to attract an NIT bid, could be the battle for second place in the Ivies this year. The Crimson hoopsters looked great last weekend when they provided Harvard fans with two exciting last-second victories...
...lead to racism, even casual racism. And at times the noticeable tendency of the writers to repeat old gags becomes annoying--even some of the names are lifted directly from the Lampoon's 1964 yearbook parody of a few years abck--but most of these complaints are of the nit-picking nature. No doubt about it, this movie is quite funny, and definitely destined to bring even more cash into the National Lampoon coffers...
...envelope, please. And now, for the best performance by an American state legislature in the Much-Ado-About-Little category, the Golden Nit for 1978 goes...
This is the homestretch of the silly season, when state legislatures across the land seem to vie for the imaginary Golden Nit. There is nothing imaginary, though, about the time, effort and deliberation they customarily devote to the trivial, the insignificant, the utterly negligible. Nebraska's legislature, for example, has just dealt with a bill to add, as consumer representatives, two corpses to the state anatomical board: that passes for humor in Lincoln. Rhode Island's senators breezily adopted a resolution praising the hairdo of a female legislator, but the house turned aside a proposal to decree ricotta...