Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building the Radcliffe gym is a relic of Radcliffe's days as an independent women's college. Fluorescent tubes hang from the ceiling now, but jets for illuminating gas still dot the walls and the leather padded running track and gym nasts rings are definitely the stuff of a bypassed era of athletics...
This is all fairly standard stuff; the one element that could have made the difference - a novel, incisive reason for David's fear - is absent. The only secret here is in the title. Some years back, Robert Enrico made a highly regarded short film of Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. His new film is turned out with the same sort of spare, elliptical edginess, but it lacks the force of Bierce's classic surprise ending...
...breeding. He popped in for ice-cream cones for the entourage at a dairy station, announcing expansively: 'They're at government expense.' Then he led everybody into the Santa Clara Rum Co. warehouse, and supervised the sampling of 100-proof rum. McGovern barely sipped the stuff and puckered up. 'Don't light a match,' cautioned Fidel cheerfully. 'The place will blow...
...department--make up a strange kind of art exhibit. The First Annual Spring Show of Student Work, put together by the Carpenter Center Students Association, doesn't center on any special theme or expose any new trend in modern art. It's a bunch of stuff done by people who like to create in a visual way and are learning new ways to do so. Some of the works are class assignments, some aren't. Some are exciting, some trite or boring. There are lithographs and photographs, mylar and plastic, oil painting and silkscreening, hung mostly according to genre...
...massed armies sweeping over traditional allied lands that made an American response automatic. There was not even a Korean type of open aggression that could trigger an easy and obvious presidential order to counterattack. From Dwight Eisenhower down to Gerald Ford, the Viet Nam decisions were more the stuff of character of a single man than in any other major conflict this nation has fought...