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Just as the characters fall flat, so does most of the humor. Korcheff and Richler try to mingle comedy with satire by including all of the obligatory but overworked jokes. As they indiscriminately mock diverse sectors of American life, their many-colored pallet congeals into a brown blob. Particularly offensive are the overheated but not well done comments on sex change operations, the welfare system, and rugged individualism. In one scene, Jane's father refuses to lend money because he worships an icon of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the promoter of self-reliance. Here, the humor is too forced...
...Hard work and a lot of enthusiasm" characterized the Kirkland effort, said coach Mo Randall. "A lot of people come out," he added, "and everyone plays an equal amount." Superior goal tending by sophomore Drew Pallet, a stingy defense and consistent offense contributed to the successful season, explained Randall...
With six minutes left to play in the game, some of the Kirkland control disappeared. Steven Mullin of Winthrop House was pulled down from behind on a breakaway by Kirkland's Rob Wagman. Mullin slapped the penalty shot past goalie Drew Pallet to put Winthrop on the scoreboard and tie the game...
...days of England's great gin debauch in the early Industrial Revolution when modern methods of gin distilling were introduced and made it the preferred spirit of the working classes. For a couple of pence you got not only enough gin to knock you out till morning but a pallet of hay and a place to sleep on the barroom floor. It is said by reputable social historians that at any one time one third of the adult population of England was drunk. At the Agassiz, tonight, tomorrow and Saturday night at 8 p.m., as well as next weekend...
...Ullman), his mistress and a lawyer. Some are garroted, others drugged or axed to death. Then Salem undoes his escape, hustles back through the snow, ascends a stone wall just slightly less perilous than Everest, clambers back into his cell, locks himself in and stretches out on his pallet for some well deserved shuteye...