Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with few refunds) is largely responsible for the school's financial success. Prospective students are wooed by ads that imply guiding faculty members will help judge aptitude tests; there are also brochures that claim "all these eminent authors in effect are looking over your shoulder as you learn." In reality, writes Miss Mitford, the guiding faculty does no teaching and does not even take a hand in recruiting the school's regular instructors...
...them except the local fishmonger (James Coco), who springs for a weekend romp on the beach. There the fortunate viewer gets to see a sexual sideshow that includes Junie and the fit-thrower dancing in the nude, and the gay cripple going from bar to bar slung over the shoulder of a husky black named Beach Boy. The point? None whatever. The film's only redeeming social value is that it has prompted the Massachusetts legislature to ban the filming of nude cemetery scenes...
...slouching individual is fitted with a sensitive belt around his back which measures the distance between his shoulder blades. If that distance exceeds a proscribed limit, the contraption rewards the individual with a slight buzzing sensation in his shoulders to remind him to straighten...
...door salesman. In 1964, his first season with the Braves, he hit 22 homers, knocked in 88 runs, batted .330 -and lost Rookie of the Year honors to the Phillies' Richie Allen, a .318 hitter. Last season, after a six-month bout with tuberculosis, he suffered through three shoulder separations and still managed a .342 average. The Comeback of the Year award, however, went to the Mets' Tommie Agee...
...utmost attention to raising the political, cultural and vocational standard of the women, in view of their merits in the struggle against U. S. aggression, for national salvation. To develop the Vietnamese women's traditions of heroism, dauntlessness, fidelity and ability to shoulder responsibilities...