Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, Contributing Editor Braestrup previewed a French semi-documentary film, Heartbreak Ridge (see CINEMA). It tells the story of another 2nd lieutenant in the same war. Braestrup's review is, to me, one that could have been written only by someone who had been there...
...pictures are semi-abstractions, but most look rather like landscapes. Hultberg borrows from De Chirico the trick of making deep, dark perspectives of converging lines. Instead of placing figures in his perspectives, Hultberg strews about a variety of three-dimensional symbols resembling portholes, ladders, wreckage, trap doors, sudden cliffs, wings and flying boxes...
...Hasty Pudding because the club needed someone to write its show's lyrics, he could not win admission to the more exclusive clubs or to the Crimson, then dominated then by arch-aristocrats who disapproved of Reed. His most political act was to join the Cosmopolitan Club, a semi-official effort to debate the day's international issues...
There were also troubles of another sort. His band of scribes were a loyal but tragic crew: one was often drunk, another eventually died of consumption, still another came close to starving to death. Meanwhile, Johnson's wife Tetty died, a semi-alcoholic, and Johnson himself was forever in need of money (he was once arrested for a ?5 debt...
Gardiner law club won a unanimous judges' decision over the Griswold club in the last of this year's Ames competition quarterfinals held last night in Austen Hall. The victory enables Gardiner to enter the semi-finals which will be held next fall...