Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tired Crimson five ran on adrenalin as the IAB crowd broke into uncharacteristic hysteria. With the band providing the beat, Harvard responded, Hooft sinking a five-footer and two foul shots, sandwiched around a Christel jumper, to close...
...advantage for the first ten minutes, it appeared that a charging penalty to Northeastern's Gerry Cowie at 11:46 would open the scoring. It did. An over-pressuring Harvard power play left Parks free for a two-on-one break. His slapshot from just inside the right blueline beat Lau to the upper right corner and the shorthanded Huskies grabbed the lead for the first time...
...football domain is Bear Bryant's briar patch. He was born and raised in it, coming out of Moro Bottom, Ark., with one good pair of shoes to play for the University of Alabama in the mid-'30s. He was the other end on the team that beat Stanford in the 1935 Rose Bowl, doing the blocking while All-America Don Hutson set records for pass catching. He wanted to coach, naturally, and worked his way up to Maryland and then gave Kentucky its only Southeastern Conference title-and an N.C.A.A. probation for recruiting violations...
...escape from a Turkish prison. One of the surprise critical successes of 1978 was the movie life of Rock Singer Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash in 1959. The next couple of years will loose a flood of screen biographies. Filming is completed on Heart Beat, the story of the three-way romance of Beat Generation Heroes Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac and Cassady's wife Carolyn. Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek play the Cassadys, and John Heard is the author of that hipster bible On the Road...
Poet Allen Ginsberg, a close friend of both Kerouac's and the Cassadys', so objected to the way he was portrayed in the screenplay of Heart Beat that he demanded he be dropped entirely. "They wanted to have someone named Allen Ginsberg speak lines I never said," he says. "I wouldn't have minded if they put something intelligent in my mouth, but it sounded like third-rate beatnik poetry." Adds Novelist Ken Kesey, another friend of the trio: "I believe in dead rights, that no one has a right to mess with a guy, use Humphrey...