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...mind Rob Reiner's priceless 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, a pseudo-rock documentary chronicling the disastrous final American tour of the world's stupidest rock band. Surveying the Gunners' career, one gets the impression that the band may have seen the film, entirely missed the satirical thrust, and elected to pattern themselves after Reiner's brain-dead metalheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Misfit Metalheads | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...about his interpretations of black experience. That got translated into an attack on freedom of speech by black students. Nothing like that ever happened at Harvard. It's a marvelous example of the skill of the neocons at taking small events and translating them into weapons against the pluralistic thrust on American campuses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Required Reading | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

...major thrust of choosing Harvard isn't the basketball coach," Sullivan said. "It may be a factor, but it isn't a really...

Author: By Ara B. Gershengorn, | Title: Sullivan Takes the Helm | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...unusual for us to get enough votes to get in to the NCAA's as an at-large bid," Fish said. "Our main thrust is to win the Ivies and the Eastern region, which means beating West Virginia. If we beat those teams, we get to go to the NCAA...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netmen Eye NCAA Championship | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

...unusual for us to get enough votes to get in to the NCAA's as an at-large bid," Fish said. "Our main thrust is to win the Ivies and the Eastern region, which means beating West Virginia. If we beat those teams, we get to go to the NCAA...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netmen Eye NCAA Championship | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

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