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Gone are the Shealys and the Cashins, "the rude and the smooth," the arrogant and flamboyant oarsmen who propelled Harvard loudly and convincingly to the top of U.S. collegiate rowing for two straight years...
...products; newspaper subscriptimn costs shared dormwide, open doors, an unusually strong tradition of participation in house and college government, and yes, the "milk and cookies" whose misnomer contributes to the myth of the Quad as unsophisticated. River people can laugh, but we're not laughing, because it's rude to laugh with our mouths full. Not just with milk or cookies, but with everything from sangria and watermelon to beer to potato pancakes, at least once a week in every dorm...
...Miss or Mr. American Talent" pageant to mock American commercialism and the competitive ethic. When the slimy, selfindulgent M.C. introduces the six stereotypical contestants, all familiarly insipid, we remain anchored in the comfortable world of parody. With the song "An Atypical American Family," however, parody is replaced by a rude inversion of values; to the music of "Mame," a brother who pulls wings off flies and a sister who carries a onearmed doll confess their mutual hatred in starkly unfunny terms. A similarly violent mood underlies "The Hard Time," a sort of Blackboard Jungle in reverse, with the students--both...
...Rude Fans...
...fans were unbelievably rude," Leckie commented, "I almost got hit on the head with a dead fish, and they put a live chicken in the net. They don't think of you as an athlete, they were unbelievably immature...