Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rash of Penalties...
...rash of penalties against Harvard evened things up for a while, as Vermont's power play managed a few shots on Crimson netminder Brian Petrovek. The euphoria at the U.Vm zone and buzzed premature, however. The worst was yet to come...
...evidence is that in his final days, Mao, with the ready assent of the versatile Chou, feels the need to bring more stable patterns to China and abandon-or at least temper-the rash experiments and the tumultuous campaigns for ideological purity. In true pragmatic style, Chou appears to be blocking out a program that will incorporate those things that have worked well as Mao sought, first one way and then another, to build a modern industrial state without at the same time creating a privileged technocratic elite...
...takes his original material quite seriously and treats it with respect. He has to; he's not only getting story, structure and characters gratis, but he's getting a perfect medium for parody of a much broader scope. Dr. Frankenstein was a first, a great film, which provoked a rash of science fiction movies over the next decade or so that decreased in merit as the form became increasingly stylized. Brooks pokes fun, although only randomly and superficially, at an era's worth of cinematic convention, parodying the bathos and pretentious moralizing of the sci-fi genre (from scientist...
...rash of counterfeit bills has surfaced in the Greater Boston area, according to Thomas C. Smith of the Boston Secret Service office, which handles all matters relating to counterfeit currency...