Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exhausted by the trip to the wilds of New Jersey, the Crimson's quarterback, budding young sports editor "Trickie Dickie" Paisner performed definitely below par, calling several bad plays, including a triple reverse which gave the Orangemen a safety in the second quarter...
...drama of the war -- the atrocities, the starving masses, the jungle fighting -- rational thinking is overwhelmed by emotionalism. In the Western world cries of outraged morality for the arsenal of the press and public. The crisis in Nigerian seems a clear-cut case of the good guys versus the bad guys. The massacres in the North justify the Ibo cause and condemn the Lagos government. With self-righteous verbal overkill, defenders of Biafra cry that Lagos is waging a war of genocide...
...once thought I knew a little something about Rhode Island. I grew up in the shadows of Brown Stadium, after all. But then Brown beat Colgate which had beaten Princeton and then the next week, the Bruins lost to Princeton. Not bad enough? Well, Frank. Licht surprised everyone by defeating incumbent governor John Chafee. So Cornell will win, 13-7, because Licht went to Brown...
Perhaps Sligar and Son wouldn't seem so bad, if it didn't try to pass itself off as a slice of ghetto life, circa 1967. But this is what it does, from the language to Debbie Waroff's fine naturalistic set. Not for a moment does the playwright convince us that he knows what he is talking about. (Hardly does the play begin when he shows us a hippie reading that revolutionary tract Black Like Me.) The playwright who wanted so much to give his work the sound of Stokely Carmichael gave us the sound of a foul-mouthed...
Finian's Rainbow--A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont and Stuart...