Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After all the trash that has come out lately from "Boogie Oogie Oogie" to "Y.M.C.A." it is a relief to be able to sit back and be able to generate some crank just by listening to a genuine article. And if that doesn't satisfy, you can always follow Johnny...
From frustrated Frank McLaughlin to reticent Bill Cleary, coaches have balked at the progression of events; but the eternal optimists hope rest, recuperation and the end of exam pressures will bring much needed relief to the athletic heartburn plaguing some of the Crimson teams...
...alternating with uneasy reconciliation. "Bolshevism," said one early observer, "means chaos, wholesale murder, the complete destruction of civilization." In 1918, Woodrow Wilson even sent some 15,000 American troops to support Allied forces fighting against the Bolsheviks in northern Russia and eastern Siberia. But within three years, the American Relief Administration under Herbert Hoover was pouring food and medical supplies into famine-ridden Russia...
...also said the University will try to counteract rising costs through its planned $250-million fund drive. In ten or 15 years, moreover, demographic trends indicate that the average family will have fewer children to send to college--a relief for those who want to send, their children to Harvard, Bok says...
...paranoia. The cast is competent and the direction by Philip Kaufman is skillful if opportunistic, but this is routine horror, not science-fiction or social statement. Donald Sutherland is bloodless as the health inspector who catches on to the massive eggplants which are infesting California, and it's a relief when he finally gets and eggplant of his own and becomes one of them. It's obvious that Leonard Nimoy is one of them from the start, although he plays the automaton well enough. Jeff Goldblum turns in the only creative performance as a counter-culture angry young...