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...League newspaper debuted this week at Ivy campuses across the Northeast, proving that for some students, the age-old athletic conference is also an intercollegiate community for the exchange of ideas and opinions, and potential profit...
Sigourney Weaver gives a terrific performance as the film's lead. No Rambo-esque musclebound bozo here, mowing down aliens for the sheer brute pleasure of it. Weaver breathes life into the age-old comic book conflict between wicked scientists and valiant humanist. Ripley, her character, manages to realistically combine the gutsy woman stereotype with a caring gentle femininity. A strong and maternal heroine is an innovation...
...fearing liability lawsuits if underage students were injured while intoxicated, and sensing heightened community scrutiny of college practices, Harvard embarked on a month-long policy review which ended with profound changes in the way the College deals with the age-old bacchanalian rights of passage...
Commencement is essentially a time for age-old traditions, and one of the best examples is the tolling of the Memorial Church bells at the start of the exercises...
...Hemingway had completed this romance, perhaps Catherine would have had more than two dimensions. The first is what Edmund Wilson called "the all- too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." The second hinges on the age-old view of woman as the cause of original sin. Catherine is a spoiler whose taste in forbidden fruit threatens the private Eden of David's art. It is the place where he struggles with his own lost innocence...