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...being sold. Once someone enrolls in a college, they are no longer special, the fancy dinners disappear, the hotel room is replaced by the athletic dormitory. For many who come to believe the stories of their own importance and choose the school by the dinner, this comes as a rude surprise...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Fact and Fiction | 12/16/1977 | See Source »

Instead, the cagers were in for a rude awakening when play resumed. After Fine netted a layup to give Harvard a 53-40 edge, the Rams proceeded to outscore the Crimson, 9-2. John Aiken's layup with 10:26 left to play pulled Fordham to within 55-49. Freshman Tyrone Holloway, the Rams' leading scorer on the night with 18 points, then scored with 6:37 in the game to cut the Harvard...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Rams Rebound to Gore Cagers, 82-75, at Rose Hill | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...fiendish stunt of casting two actresses as Conchita, and then proceeds to interchange them at whim. It is his way of saying that the movie's subject is Mathieu's obsessive desire rather than the 'obscure object" that brings it about. There are many other rude jokes as well, all designed to pull the rug out from under civilization as we know it. Buñuel casts a dwarf as a professor of psychology and dreams up a clerical terrorist group called the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus. When the two Conchitas implore Mathieu to respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orderly Chaos | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...tasteless, rude and offensive...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: A Crazy Kind Of Guy | 12/3/1977 | See Source »

After each round Wallace staggered to the outside of the ring, gagged out a rude mass of blood from his mouth, and returned to combat with a gapped tooth sneer to wallow in the next round of punishment at the hands of Shavers...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Shavers Plans to Trim Ali | 9/29/1977 | See Source »

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