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...time. It's back this semester after a year in dry dock. Other favorites include: Fine Arts 175a ("Bricks for Dicks") and Literature and Arts C-14. "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization," ("Heroes for Zeroes"). What promises to be this year's recording-breaking chart-topper among new offerings, philosopher Robert Nozick's Phil 25, "The Best Things in Life," hasn't yet acquired an official yuck-it-up title. "Pleasure" and "Ice Cream" are top contenders...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...over the air waves on March 8 with a scenario jerry-built by 100 Stars Writer-Producer Hildy Parks, who with Husband Alexander Cohen conspires yearly to mount TV's Tony Awards show. Viewers delirious to watch Al Pacino, Leonard Nimoy and 34 others don white tie, topper and tails and kick a leg with the Rockettes will have to see them through the eyes of a young Rockette, sidelined by a twisted ankle, as she is comforted by an aged stagehand while the show goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Daze of the Locust | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon are shown living their day-to-day lives, doing things like standing trial for shooting pet pigeons and discussing the Red Brigade ("It's a pizza parlor, isn't it?"), while their fictitious counterpart, played by Ray Grange, wanders from concert to concert, drinking heavily and prying comment from the band. More than once, it seems that the filmmakers have intruded upon Clash concerts in order to beef up the action in the film, including the taunting of an unruly Rock Against Racism crowd. Late into the rambling film, a racial element...

Author: By Gregory Springer, | Title: Punk Flicks (Old Tricks) | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

...bats of both teams fell silent until late in the contest when Harvard managed the only tally of the first five innings as Bobby Kelley scored from second base after Mark Bingham's topper was mishandled by the first baseman in the third...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Bruins Foil Brownie, 7-4, As Batsmen Split Twinbill | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

American mini-blitz on behalf of their new album Give 'Em Enough Rope: ten days, seven cities, stretching from Berkeley to New York, stirring up waters that flow far too free and easy. "American audiences like music to keep you happy," observes Drummer Nicky ("Topper") Headon. "It's music for you to drive home by." "It's the most dreadful thing," Lead Guitarist Mick Jones declares scornfully. "The Aerosmiths, the Foghats, the Bostons-they've kind of signed themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Gang in Town | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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