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Yale Class of 1982 will sponsor a 9 p.m. Saturday night party on Yale Commons for those who can bear the cold of the Hew Haven smog (a mixture of smoke and stale beer...

Author: By Bruce K. Mcmeekin, | Title: In Search of the Perfect Post-Game Party | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

Casino Royale (Chittenden Hall): Thousands of Harvard students flood New Haven one weekend, drink a lot, and make general nuisances of themselves. The movie features Cheap vodka as the notorious villain Bad Punch. Don't miss the famous "Davenport Bash" scene starring Warm Stale Beer...

Author: By De Witt, | Title: De Witt Goes South and Gets Drunk | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

Except for the murderous fusillades, the botched Brink's job seemed a routine case. But as police and federal agents began to examine it closely, they found themselves back in the 1960s rummaging through the stale and dusty catacombs of Viet Nam-era radicalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bullets from the Underground | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...sweetness and beauty of their affair, not enough with emphasizing what is at its center: an irresistible sexual magnetism that can be so surprising to youngsters that it overwhelms them. Worse, in attempting to suggest the play of memory and inner consciousness, Zeffirelli and Screenwriter Rascoe resort to such stale devices as flashbacks, hallucinatory episodes and ghostly voiceovers. There is even a moment when the action comes to a halt and, yes, a title song is played while all the actors go moony-faced. About the only cliche of '40s psychodrama movies that is missing is a dream sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mad Pash | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...older men do not have the same perspective on issues like sex discrimination, reproductive rights or the issues that affect women's rights directly." Declared former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, a black lawyer: "I congratulate the President. The Supreme Court was the last bastion of the male: a stale dark room that needed to be cracked open. I don't know the lady, but if she's a good lawyer and believes in the Constitution, she'll be all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brethren's First Sister: Sandra Day O'Connor, | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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