Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clincher came when I ran into two friends--Janice, with whom I had gone to high school, and Marguerite, her current roommate--who had paid $20 each to catch a glimpse of Richard Dreyfuss, and a taste of what Harvard theater was all about. They hadn't even seen Dreyfuss, but were nonetheless preparing to beat a Hasty Pudding Retreat to the egress at intermission. Marguerite asked the inevitable question: "Is this what all Harvard shows are like?" Mumbling something to the effect that she had missed the point of these affairs entirely, I followed her out the door...
...Stornik caught goalie Hynes out of the cage and smacked the puck into the net. The Cornell fans, who seemed to outnumber the Harvard contingent, cheered with more frantic zeal and went wild. They had seen it before, the explosive Cornell offense, and the Cornell crowd tasted victory...
...says, a lot of people have jobs because he's made jobs for them. But a lot of the people who work for him are very poor, and they couldn't be much worse off. My father says they should work harder and make more money. I've seen them work and they can't make much more money than they...
...France--a prism through which modern society has often been seen and analyzed--many radicals who espouse revolutionary Marxism to break the shackles of an exploitative, capitalistic order, look askance to this optimistic prognostication. The radicals suspect that this justification of the perpetuation of the status quo is just more bourgeois ballyhoo to stem the revolutionary tide and maintain an odious mode of production built on the selfish expropriation of labor-power from the proletarians by the capitalists...
...Hitchcock would have had a ball with Coma, and maybe we'd have seen some of Boston, too, where the story is supposedly set--imagine the climactic operation taking place in Fenway Park, or on top of the John Harvard statue. But instead we get Dr. Michael Crichton, and it's goodbye to wit, to hell with the unseen, and a scalpel to the audience's brain...