Word: spite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really lots better. It isn't, but it's shorter. Parodying the thirties Flash Gordon series, Flesh, an all-American Mr. Clean hero and his two musketeers, pursue the evil sex ray to its source, discovering a sexual munchkin land where Prince Precious and his tandy tribe frolic in spite of the Evil Wang's despotic rule. The special effects--including penises as monsters, trees, spaceships, etc.--all seem like the products of a pervert with a chemistry set in someone's bathroom. None of it really very funny, and the Orson Welles print cuts out a good...
...crippled bill, if it hobbles through Congressional committees to the floor, may even pass, because it is obsequious enough to collect votes in spite of continuing lobbying by the American Medical and Hospital Associations (AMA and AHA). Spending more than $3 million a year, those organizations put up a united front opposing mandatory controls and publicizing the hospital industry's moderately successful voluntary effort...
...that view has undergone a dramatic change. Says West German Physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker: "Einstein's true greatness lies in the fact that he remains relevant today, in spite of the breakthroughs that have occurred since his death." Indeed, it is many of those breakthroughs that have contributed to the Einstein revival...
After seven years Einstein at last merged from the patent office and won a succession of academic posts in Prague and Zurich. Finally, on the ve of World War I, in spite of his distaste for Germany's pervasive militarism, he accepted a professorship at the University of Berlin and an appointment to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute as head of a newly created center for theoretical physics...
Harvard's skiers, on the other hand, are largely men and women who happen to have fun with the sport and ski well in spite of geographical and financial obstacles...