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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...participants this day were Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Delaware and Oswego State. The entrants take part in three competitions--a banana-eating contest (the Nat Sci), a beer-chugging relay (the Soc Sci), and a wet tee-shirt event (the Hum)--with one school emerging as the overall victor. Sort of like the Olympics, if you know what I mean...
...save their homes, their resources, their lives." This view may exaggerate the constancy of the Indians' will during an era when they were displaced by a relentlessly expanding society. Yet that will has plainly stiffened. In Apologies to the Iroquois (1959), Edmund Wilson noted the emergence of a sort of Indian "nationalism" that he likened to that of the Israelis. Clearly, some new assertiveness began crystallizing among the Indians in the 1960s, when they came under the sway of the same influences that had aroused many other minorities into bristling self-awareness. Suddenly, Indians demanded attention in a sequence...
...being rerun tonight on Channel 11 at precisely the same time that Channel 5 is featuring the latest episode of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. And tomorrow night Upstairs, Downstairs is coming over the tube at 9 p.m.-when you will have to be at a dinner downtown. This sort of problem is easily solved by the 50,000 U.S. owners of Tokyo-based Sony Corp.'s Betamax video-tape record-and-playback system (price: $1,300 list, about $1,000 at discount). The Betamax, which can be attached to any TV, records on a $16 cartridge one hour...
...short, Eagle is an action film of a rather traditional sort-meaning that however improbable it is in detail, it retains some sense of scale and traditional human virtues. It is well played by a cast that includes Donald Sutherland, veering interestingly from dark to light moods as an Irish nationalist making a temporary alliance with the Germans, as well as several old-reliable English character people. Modest, well crafted, less bloody and less bloody-minded than most TV shows, it is a PG film that any P ought to be happy to G the kids through. Richard Schickel
...something different." In the 13-installment program, which she will begin shooting in September, Julia will whip up entire meals instead of single dishes, aiming also to "get out of the kindergarten. We don't want to show how to chop onions. This will be sort of an advanced thing for people who like to cook." Some possibilities for Julia's new menu: New England boiled beef and cabbage, Pedernales chili and, of course, grits...