Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some loose change which fell out of the mother's house coat as she died--truly a good touch, as is Bobby's compulsive neatness: a bit of calculated direction about which I would be more sanguine were Bogdanovich's own camera style less neat and precise. These are better than all the Baby Ruths, charge accounts, and Pepsi bottles which appear, symbols of blind America called into question when employed by a raving maniac...
...nights later, Harvard faced the only team on the trip the players felt had better personnel--San Jose State. The Spartans started a 6-10, 6-7, 6-5 front line which eventually wore down the under-manned Crimson...
Harvard's record now stands at three wins and seven losses. Dover is averaging better than 20 points a game and certainly impressed many West Coast fans and writers. As Gustavson said, much later that sad Thursday night in San Francisco, "We didn't win them all, but there's no one laughing at us. We left the floor with respect. Now it's time to start winning...
...shadow. Boris Kaufman's camera work briskly comes to life when Negroes scatter the police with a hail of curses and broken bottles. But such fragments stand alone in an unawakened film that can only pretend to tell the truth. In search of black authenticity, the viewer might better spend his time reading LeRoi Jones or Eldridge Cleaver. One may find these men intolerable, but it is possible to respect them. Up Tight is far more tolerable-but it is impossible to respect...
...much about his three latest partners, aside from reporting that Smith will be based in Washington while Deming and Lewis will work in Manhattan. As for salary, the Government paid Smith $35,000, Deming $29,500 and Lewis $28,750. Meyer allowed that all will be "much better-paid" in their new jobs-a disclosure that, for him, almost amounted to giving away house secrets...