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Wildcat defenseman Brian Byrnes sat in the penalty box after being called for tripping at 12:50 in the second period. But, despite the man advantage, the Crimson still wasn't scoring. The UNH shorthand defense, the best in the ECAC (opponents have only scored nine times out of 101 power-plays) seemed more than able to contain the icemen...
Then the whistle blew for the second time in less than a minute, and UNH forward Norm LaCombe joined his teammate in the penalty box. Finally, almost a minute after LaCombe left the ice, senior Jim Turner jumped on a Mark Fusco rebound and slammed it by Pearson to bring the icemen within one, and more importantly prove to themselves that they could score against Pearson...
Note the phraseology of that Post comment. The reporter did not write "in the South" or even "in the former Confederacy" Without wishing to open a Pandora's Box by discussing the question of Southern identity in the late 20th century, one should note that in that phraseology lies the whole problem confronting a Southern candidate for the Presidency: a lingering sense of Southern separateness combines with an equally lingering suspicion, hostility, even prejudice against the South. The Jimmy Carter saga only heightened these tensions...
...potential audience of 1.2 million, only about 130,000, or 11%, opted to pay $10 to watch the show, which stars Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, George Rose and the rocker Rex Smith. Moreover, in its first weekend, the movie earned a meager theater box office of $255,000, as well as the enmity of exhibitors, who resented Universal's undermining of their customary exclusive on movie premieres. Says Mitchell Neuhauser, associate executive director of the Independent Theater Owners Association: "Exhibitors don't want to be treated like second-class citizens...
...lucrative marketing technique of the future. By 1984 there may be as many as 3 million homes equipped for pay-per-view. That growing audience theoretically offers Hollywood the possibility of recouping the entire cost of a film in a single evening, conceivably without cutting into theatrical box-office receipts...