Word: booted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Football's first major concession to TV occurred back in 1967, when the Super Bowl featured two kickoffs for the second half; NBC had been in the middle of a commercial for the first boot. Today, time-outs are given for a sound athletic reason - the sponsors need time to air their messages. (Those sponsors tackle each other for the privilege of paying up to $70,000 for a one-minute, Sunday afternoon commercial.) The networks, with their zeppelins and zoom lenses, their dreamlike instant replays of color and violence, have changed football watching from a remote college pastime...
...above average. Marlowe is more viable than Ford's or Hawks's silent cowboys, though, to be sure, that is the result of inevitable updating, call it urbanization. But he carries the same characteristics that took John Wayne through God knows how many movies, and won the West to boot. The change is as natural...
...have been offered since July through direct mail, newspaper ads and American Express, but it is too early to tell how much of that audience will respond. Nevertheless, the optimistic Landau has already begun selecting plays for next year, and for a Saturday-morning children's series to boot...
...league, lost too much via graduation to maintain its spot in the limelight. Cornell has bounced back from the loss of record-shattering Ed Marinaro and created a ground attack that would even make Marinaro fans take notice. And now the Big Red has come up with defense to boot. Cornell seems destined to take over the top spot in the Ivies...
...Bloom) has that sort of perfect fine-featured face with lines of tension at the edges that tell you about the anxiety she suffers in living up to the Victorian ideal of femininity: women should be seen and not heard. She finally slams the door on it and, to boot, on children and her husband who is insufferably male with a vengeance. Cheri...