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...film Animal House. In that picture, we were told, "It was the Deltas against the rules. And the rules lost." Since then, Landis has continued to break rules, whether by making an R&B picture during the height of disco (1980's The Blues Brothers) or by running roughshod over MTV's 3-minute video format with a 20-minute musical short subject (Michael Jackson's Thriller...
...director, Frank Rienzo. "Should there be a distinction as to who should be tested and who should not be?" Argues Duke Law Professor Weistart: "Colleges could never get away with testing the entire student body. But because there is no single party representing student athletes, the N.C.A.A. can ride roughshod over their civil liberties. It's a patent invasion of privacy...
...philosophic disagreements over how to use the island apparently run deep, and they have been exacerbated by the flamboyant way Iacocca has gone % about raising the millions of dollars, tapping schoolchildren and major corporations alike. In personalizing the project, he ran roughshod over the Park Service and its green-uniformed rangers, according to some critics, reducing them to errand boys for the foundation and the commission. Said Park Service Spokesman George Berklacy after Iacocca was fired: "The rangers were bleeding green with happiness this morning. The Secretary's action was a tremendous morale boost...
Almost reflexively, the national media sprang into action. Network anchors ran roughshod over regularly scheduled programs, and network executives hastily rescheduled their programming to accommodate special reports...
Ronald Reagan has a folksy, homespun manner, but neither his policies nor his life-style quite conveys the image of a populist President. Yet there he was on national TV last week and in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., Oshkosh, Wis., and Malvern, Pa., assailing a tax code that "runs roughshod over Main Street America" and calling for an end to "unproductive tax shelters, so that no one will be able to hide in the havens privilege builds." Looking ever more fit and sounding ever more feisty, Reagan relished being back on the road, taking the offense in pursuit of the boldest...