Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected it. With the score Harvard 4, Dartmouth 4, Dartmouth's Dennis Murphy sat in the penalty box for hooking with only 24 seconds elapsed in the ten minute overtime period. Harvard's power play had been passing and shooting well all night. A quick goal would give the Crimson the game. With the Woodsmen playing shorthanded, Dartmouth's Don O'Brien poked a rebound past rookie goaltender John Hynes to give Dartmouth a sudden-death, come from behind victory...
Whatever Hamill is trying to say about incest falls short of being at all comprehensive. He should have stuck with the fairly insightful thoughts on why Fallon likes to box, that he began with: The story revolves around an Irish kid from Brooklyn, who gets himself involved in a barroom brawl and winds up in jail. Jail turns out to do him a lot of good, because it is there that trainers discover Bobby's boxing talent (he isn't a good fighter yet, but he's got the instinck...), and launch him into training for the all-impressive boxing...
...direct response to the Pretoria government's latest wave of repression. A week earlier more than 50 black leaders had been placed under detention and 18 black and interracial organizations, the country's leading black newspaper, and seven white activists and journalists had been "banned" (see box...
...Director Steven Spielberg took a routine fish-bites-man story and transformed it into a show business phenomenon. Jaws, a merciless attack on the audience's nerves, quickly established its creator as the reigning boy genius of American cinema and went on to pile up the largest box office take in the history of movies. Now 29, Spielberg is ready with his encore, an $18 million extravaganza about UFOs and aliens who come to earth in them called Close Encounters of the Third Kind. If the director is nervous, it is hard to blame him: when the new film premieres...
...secret turns out to have been worth keeping. Although the movie is not a sure blockbuster?it lacks the simplicity of effect that characterizes most alltime box office champs?it will certainly be a big enough hit to keep Columbia's stockholders happy. More important, Close Encounters offers proof, if any were needed, that Spielberg's reputation is no accident. His new movie is richer and more ambitious than Jaws, and it reaches the viewer at a far more profound level than Star Wars. The film is not perfect, but, like Stanley Kubrick's similar (if far chillier...