Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a while since Harvard has played in a Beanpot final, and only Murray and Rick Benson of the current crew remember losing to BU in the Blizzard-delayed 'Pot of '78. Next Monday night is as good a time as any to give this sagging hockey program the shot in the arm it so sorely needs. And it is also as good an opportunity as we're bound to get in a while to find out if Billy Cleary's Crimson sextet...
...planning meeting for the movie organized by the Film Institute of the United States and the Film Institute of the United Kingdom and its hapless representative, Joe Veriato, takes a long satirical swipe at the movie industry, with a representative collection of fools: Mickey Boorman and Pat Sligo, two pot-smoking "New Wave" filmmakers from L.A.; Carl Dorf, a self-exiled victim of McCarthyism; Dan Rashur, the wunderkind director with the Colgate smile; Sy Joelmersbagger, a tweedy history professor from Yale; and Sir Flute Parsons, an over-the-hill British screenwriter with a fondness for money and American boys. Wood...
...into overtime. Wayne Turner notched the winner for the Huskies and coach Fernie Flaman, a former Bruin star who possesses the world's most beautifully broken nose. The Garden erupted in the greatest hockey upset of the year--to that point. Who could've imagined a couple of old Pot participants name of Eruzione, Craig and Silk would lead the U.S. past the mighty Soviets...
...Freedom of Information Act, carefully delineates the devious (and perhaps even unconstitutional) machinations of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Shawcross traces the course of events which led to Cambodia's downfall in 1975, and concludes with his analysis of the reasons leading to the massive brutalities committed under Pol Pot...
Prince Sihanouk explains how the Khmer Rouge created their army only after "several years of persistent indoctrination" which dated back far before 1970. It was all part of an effort of the Khmer Rouge (whose central leadership consisted of only four members: Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, and their wives) to create a fanatically dedicated--and extraordinarily ruthless--army to carry out a plan hatched in the minds of Pol Pot during his education at the Sorbonne. To further this goal, the Khmer Rouge recruited 12-year-olds for intensive training which emphasized forture, the "tantalizing prospect" of playing...