Word: ambienceâ
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...brawlers?tank-town versions of the old, notorious Philadelphia Flyers. His tactics are as low as the team's skills in language arts, and just as effective. Slowly one passes from shock to sympathy and laughter. One appreciates as well Director Hill's solid realization of the minor-league ambience???plasticized motels and bars, dreary arenas, the grubby team bus?and the brisk, vivid sketches of recognizable jock types with which he and Screenwriter Dowd* have peopled the Chiefs. Unquestionably, the film makers are at tempting a valid moral statement. Their concern is not merely with the decline of hockey...
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