Word: wading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even before the Overseers begin to wade through a long agenda that includes every problem facing Harvard except finding a new President, Pusey will ask that the Corporation be allowed "to proceed to the election of a new President." He will take the permission back to the Corporation and return with the name of the nominee. Dispensing with by-laws requiring a seven-day waiting period, the Overseers are then expected to approve the new President to take office when Pusey retires in June...
...wade through piles before we sleep...
...Once you wade through the orchestrations, there are some very good songs, yet nothing that even approaches the quality of Harrison's earlier material, nothing as good as "Here Comes the Sun." "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Something," "Sour Milk Sea," "Savoy Truffle," "It's All Too Much," or "If I Needed Someone." The best cuts are those that sound like they were recorded while Spector was out of the room ("Apple Scruffs," "If Not For You") and those that seem like deliberate imitations of other people. "What is Life," for example, which is not nearly...
...PRODUCTION of Pirates of Penzance which opened at Agassiz last night is a lot like the claws of a Maine lobster: there are a few enjoyable morsels buried inside, but you have to wade through a pile of crud to get at them. The Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players have patched together the most remarkably uneven performance they have given in recent years...
...that, the viewer who can wade through an implausible situation, a clutch of cardboard dropouts and painful patches of dialogue will discover a film that is curiously sensitive and affecting. Screenwriter James Bridges (The Appaloosa, The Forbin Project) makes his debut here as a director; his sympathetic approach to the principal characters and an admirable sense of directorial pace eventually overcome his stereotypes and his tin ear for conversation. Even so, Bridges could not remotely have succeeded without engaging performances from Miss Hershey (the willful teen queen from Last Summer) and Sam Groom and Collin Wilcox-Horne...