Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That was not surprising. The tour was being guided by two outfits that run the Marxist indoctrination program inside the country, the Ethiopian Revolutionary Information Committee (ERIC) and the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs (POMOA). Explained one official: "Ninety-five percent of Ethiopia is illiterate, and this jargon stuff is designed to try to communicate some very complex ideas to them. I'm sorry it's being used on you as well." The argument did not go down well with a disgruntled Soviet correspondent, who might have been expected to be more tolerant of the relentless ideologizing...
...Good Stuff...
Harvard had two great chances to at least tie the contest early in the second period. With three minutes gone Tom Murray tried twice to stuff home a rebound of a Jon Garrity shot, but was stifled by Cornell goalie Steve Napier...
...science fiction that flourished in the '30s, as exemplified by the novels of E.E. "Doc" Smith, from whose "Lensman" books the convention takes its name. Many SF fans seem to look back fondly to this era of "space opera," and resent its being dismissed as "that old Buck Rogers stuff." At the same time, this genre has been revived, updated a bit and popularized by the movie "Star Wars...
...worthy theatrical venture merits sincere wishes for success, but the Off-Broadway Theatre may not get much of a chance to show its stuff if it doesn't come up with better material than American Buffalo, the David Mamet play of several years ago chosen as its first production. These days, Mamet is a playwright of some note. His talent seems to have matured--his A Life in the Theatre, currently running at the real off-Broadway, in Greenwich Village, is a marvelous work, full of wit and the kind of charm only a developed writer can muster. But American...