Word: except
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Except for one girl who stopped to ask Vonnegut for his autograph...
Omnivore is open from 10 a. m. to 2 a. m. every day. Hungry Charley's opens at 7 a. m. (except on Sundays, when it opens an hour later) and serves breakfast. It closes to midnight on week nights and at 2 on Fridays and Saturdays...
...then came Rod Foster, a second-string sophomore quarterback from Dallas, who, as a freshman, couldn't throw a lateral that didn't wobble. On his second play from scrimmage, he started to show his hand. It was a simple fake hand-off in the backfield, hardly worth noting except that in other years it would have been called a broken play. Then a pass for a first down. And another pass-on first down! You look to the sidelines to see if Yovicsin has crawled out from under the bench, and there he is standing resolutely next...
...undergraduates, except those who are eligible for and accepted Sophomore Standing upon matriculation, the degree course requirement remains sixteen and one-half courses. No course credit or course reduction is permitted for Advanced Placement awards; for such awards only placement not credit is offered...
What then is so wrong with Street Scenes? Principally, its inability to comprehend. It is openly empathetic with the students, but it gives them no voice except to shout slogans. Its sound track puts down "dinky little secretaries" who will not take a day off to protest the war. It milks easy laughs from those classic villains, the know-nothing cab driver and the harried postman. To be sure, the film eventually recognizes its own faults. "We can't reach the working people," concludes one of the crew. But acknowledging blindness does not grant vision; diagnosis is no cure...