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...holding a turkey between his legs while a woman cuts the squealing bird's head off with an ax. Ferreri's other sight gags include a couple rutting around in pastry batter and a toilet exploding, inundating everyone in the vicinity with excrement. Much is alien to a sensibility like that, although little is beneath...
Silber's handling of the code -- like his secret poll on ROTC after school ended last Spring -- reveals a president-faculty relationship totally alien to the experience of Harvard. Harvard's Faculty is the President's most prestigious and politically most significant constituency. Had Nathan Pusey not crossed the Faculty on ROTC in 1969, Derek Bok might now still be dean of the Law School...
...unwilling to admit publicly that the interests of Richard M. Nixon are different from the interests of the presidency, and that the interests of the presidency may be quite different from the interests of the country as a whole. This over developed identification of self with office is quite alien from any American political tradition. It is also a phenomenon which demands Nixon's impeachment. The Yamashita precedent--set when a Japanese general was hanged (by American justice) for crimes his troops committed--is inapplicable for anything but political crimes. Yet political crimes are what the American Congress faces when...
...office wanted to revive this form of film entertainment, they could well begin right here in Cambridge. The movie would be called "The Road to Moscow," and it would integrate the forties travel motif that brought Hope, Crosby and Lamour fame and fortune with a seriousness of purpose quite alien to the fluff and whimsy that characterized earlier efforts...
...which irrepressibly and forcefully peppered opposing netmen with a destructive machine-gun fusillade of goals and attempts, full and deadly, carrying the Crimson ice fortunes to wide and expansive successes, mounting attack after attack, coiling and recoiling with the relentless regularity of a blind and savage dog against an alien cage of restraint, whose cage was a 4 ft. by 6 ft. cubicle squatting at the end of an ice highway, hunched full of glove and stick and defending bulk in which sinew and muscle and the accouterments of a savage and irrepressible game warfare were dedicated to the sole...