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...course London is not always so vaunted. Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is a famous portrait of the rancid gutters, but James Eyre Week's vision of the grey fog of people, "Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist" presents the wen at its gloomist. Also intriguing are Hannah More and William Parsons' words on the tumuluous bred riots that swept the nation towards the end of the century. And Mary Alcock's "The Chimney Sweeper's Complaint" whisks in the industrial fervor...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: In Praise of Forgotten Poets | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...routines that resemble expensive electronic work books rather than the more imaginative examples described in this report. Small wonder, since good programs often require more than 200 hours of preparation for a single hour of instruction. To surmount this barrier, university administrators will have to do much more than shower their campuses, with expensive equipment. A more important step will be to persuade some of the best teachers on the faculty to take an active interest in the new technology and give them the funds and technical help they need to develop imaginative applications. As in all human enterprise, choosing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education in the Computer Age | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

Question: From the following brief plot outline, can you guess the title of the movie? A group of young men, considered outcasts from ordinary society, connives to engage in sexual congress with a group of attractive young women. They spy on the girls in the shower or while they are undressing for bed, start a food fight or something equally uplifting, crack a lot of dirty jokes, indulge in all sorts of crude and sometimes amusing behavior, and in the end triumph over the forces of stuffy convention, such as parents, policemen, school authorities and almost anybody else over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And Animal House BEGAT . . . | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...them, that's what, and they are all about the same damn thing. Since 1978, when National Lampoon's Animal House revived the teenpix genre, rites of passage have become Kabuki rituals: popping zits, snapping towels in the locker room, dancing in the streets, ogling the girls in the shower, getting crazy drunk and tearing up the strip in a "borrowed" Porsche and grossing out Mom and Dad. Sentient adults must unite to cry: Enough already! The glandular convulsions of adolescence are just not interesting or complex enough to sustain the plots of half a hundred Hollywood films each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is There Life After Teenpix? | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...proceeds will go for a memorial honoring Eric H. Straceman '85, who slipped in the shower at his New Canasa, Conn., home last May 24, knocking himself unconscious and drowning in a few inches of water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabot House Auction Nets $1900 | 2/12/1985 | See Source »

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