Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Continuing what has been a disappointing week for Harvard soccer, the Crimson JV's, falling prey to overconfidence and inexperience, dropped a 3-2 decision to Babson yesterday on the Business School Field...
...cooperate with the most massive and potentially significant survey Crusader Ralph Nader has undertaken. Working through the summer to pin down precisely how Congress, as well as each of its 535 members, actually rather than theoretically functions, about 800 eager, mostly unpaid Nader's Raiders are stalking their prey in Capitol corridors, Washington offices, state capitals and home districts. One major aim is to produce a profile of roughly 20 pages each on about 490 members* in time to help voters make up their minds about their Congressmen in November. There will also be exhaustive studies of how each...
...show, Wilson will soon be posting the banns-somewhere in the second reel, in fact. His intended is one Terry Kozlenko (Barbara Harris), who supports three children and a yapping mongrel on alimony checks. Once wed, Wilson is beset by miseries. His stepchildren are a mess. The boy is prey to countless nighttime fears, the younger of the two daughters stammers, and the older displays unmistakable signs of nymphomania. Terry's ex-husband (Jason Robards) visits disruptively. The dog snarls...
...movie is as shrill and dense as its heroine and, incidentally, is casually vicious toward Puerto Ricans, who are mostly portrayed as primitives who are prey to ghastly superstition and threatening to high-toned women. Director Waris Hussein is, from the evidence of this movie, unclear about the difference between suspense and brutality. For some heavy atmospherics, he has Norah's apartment festooned with African masks. For shock he lingers lovingly over close-ups of newly decapitated heads. Whenever he needs some tension, he brings on Actor Perry King to snarl, suggest acts of elaborate sadism and terrify...
...Carlos last week to decide whether Johnson should be ordained. How did he regard his sexuality? Johnson was asked. "I regard all sexuality as a gift from God and a good gift," he replied. Might he have a contaminating effect on church youth? "There is a mythology that homosexuals prey on children," said Johnson, "when 98 percent of all pedophiles are heterosexuals." Could he be a good minister without a wife? "I don't really feel I need a wife," Johnson said. "I hope some day to share a deep love relationship with another...