Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...establishment of an official prayer is only the latest step in Alabama's drive to bring religion back to the schools. A law passed in 1978 and broadened last year allows "silent meditation" or "voluntary prayer." Said Charlene Boyd, a Mobile elementary school teacher: "The children in my classroom were allowed, if they voluntarily chose to do so, to sing the following jingle: 'God is great, God is good,/ Let us thank him for our food./ Bow our heads, we are fed./ Give us, Lord, our daily bread.' " When Ishmael Jaffree, a Mobile attorney, discovered that...
...Upstream begins way downstream, as two middle-class English couples prepare to set off together on a seven-day holiday up the River Orb. Trouble begins with a peevish squabble between Keith (Robin Bowerman), who organized the party, and his wife June (Carole Boyd). The next morning the Hadforth Bounty, Britain in miniature, starts its uncertain journey to Armageddon Bridge-where, as in the Bible, good and evil will meet in final conflict...
Moments later, Landry headed a Deb Field corner kick toward the Aggie goal line, where A&M netminder Graylyn Boyd pounced on the ball. But Boyd failed to control the ball, and Crimson fullback Jean Piersiak, who stands in the crease to harass the goalie on corner kicks, slid into the sprawling Boyd to knock in the tying goal with 26:30 remaining in the contest...
...Texans and All-American Carol Smith pressured temporarily, but sweeper Field singlehandedly launched the Harvard counter-offensive with a booming half-the-length-of-the-field clearing pass. The speedy Ferrante then outran the Aggie fullbacks to the ball and, before colliding with Boyd, directed it into the net to give the Crimson a 3-2 lead...
...handful of faltering scenes--an insipid look on a wife bidding her husband farewell when he leaves for Turkey, a near descent into bathos after the first battle scene and a few half-hearted scenes of soldiers at liberty in the market in Egypt--the sounds that accompany Boyd's overwhelming images are the film's only flaw. Even the zipping and buzzing muzak noises would not be so awful except that Weir repeatedly splices between them Albinoni's dirge-like Adagio in G minor to signify CRITICAL MOMENTS and IMPENDING FATE. The fault lies not in the adagio, which...