Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...championship game of professional football annually produces more ennui than excitement. "Ball control" is the Super Bowl battle cry. Stay on the ground, eat up the clock, kick a couple of field goals, and take home the trophy. Super Bowl X may be more of the same monotonous brand of play. Dallas has a stifling defense-as both the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams found out in the playoffs. Pittsburgh (TIME cover, Dec. 8) merely has the best defense in the N.F.L...
Harvard managed to play a controlled, patient brand of basketball through most of the contest, only rarely falling into the run-and-gun tempo that seemed to signal that the Terriers were ready to go on another streak. Nevertheless, Harvard's ball control was amazing. With Glenn Fine deftly directing the attack, the Crimson turned the ball over only six times. The excellent performance was just too much for BU to match...
...brilliant as the shy, bumbling, confused Benjamin who finds himself involved with a married woman, and then (not much of a surprise, considering Katherine Ross is in the film) with her daughter. My favorite scene is Hoffman floating at the bottom of his parents' swimming pool in his brand new scuba outfit contemplating the absurdity of life. Or something like that. The ending is straight out of storybook land, but with Simon and Garfunkel singing, Hoffman and Bancroft acting and one of the better comic scripts around. Plastics...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has so far refrained from joining the chorus of anti-Nasser abuse. Significantly, he has also taken no steps to suppress it. It is no secret in Cairo that Sadat has long felt that Nasser's particular brand of socialism and his costly foreign policy adventures (such as his military intervention in the Congo and Yemen civil wars) blocked Egypt's economic progress. Sadat gradually closed the country's concentration camps; many political leaders imprisoned by Nasser have been rehabilitated and returned to positions of power. Mustafa Amin, who was released from prison...
...They like to run," Richards says, as his disciples charge up and down the floor in a loose neighborhood brand of ball. He lets them, too, preferring to take as little time as possible in practice...