Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does a director of Peter Weir's caliber make a miscalculation of this magnitude? One suspects that this passionate and meticulous Australian filmmaker was carried away by his own obsession. From his first success (Picnic at Hanging Rock) to his last (Witness), Weir has been at pains to dislocate rationality, placing representatives of Western "civilization" in primitive contexts, where their normal habits of mind and behavior can only mislead them. Doubtless he saw Allie as a bracing variant on his favorite sort of central figure. Perhaps Weir saw in this sacred monster the makings of dark comedy; Allie...
Ignoring such distractions, Medium William Monroe managed to groan, grimace and hiccup his way into a trance. In the process, he took on an uncanny resemblance to Rock Singer Elton John. In front of Monroe was a black- draped table laden with miscellaneous memorabilia: a manila envelope containing a letter from Arthur Conan Doyle, two pairs of handcuffs, a selection of lockpicks, a yellowed photograph. Monroe's task: to contact, on the 60th anniversary of his death, the ghost of Harry Houdini, master escapologist, prestidigitator and Appleton's most celebrated son. While Monroe writhed and jerked, it must be noted...
Remember when you were a little kid and played rock 'n roll band with pots and pans for instruments? Well, just when you thought it was safe to go back to the kitchen, it's time for No Exit, a band made up of current and former student employees of Harvard Dining Services...
...mainly a rhythm and blues, pop band, but we can definitely rock and party when we have to," said David Alves, lead singer of the band and a Union employee from 1980-86. Other members include co-founder Ken Sparrow and Frank Rousseau, both of whom have worked for Food Services...
...school teacher brings a sex- discrimination suit against her school board, charging that she was fired because she got pregnant -- without a husband. Or how about a juicy family squabble? The grandparents of little Tawny argue that the girl should be taken away from her widowed father, a punk-rock singer known as Lord Nasty, whose stage antics include biting the heads off live hamsters. (The father wins custody after revealing that the hamster trick is done by sleight of hand...