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Cynical fans had begun to wonder less about a player's totals in yards rushing than in drugs rushing. Last week National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle, 57, finally decided to tackle the problem with the first N.F.L. suspensions for using cocaine. Pete Johnson, 29, and Ross Browner, 29, of the Cincinnati Bengals, E.J. Junior, 23, of the St. Louis Cardinals and Greg Stemrick, 31, of the New Orleans Saints will be barred from training camp, practice sessions and competition through the fourth game of the N.F.L. season. That will cost them about 25% of their salaries. "N.F.L. players...
...high school," he recalls, "I had dreams of going to a football school. Notre Dame contacted me, but they said I was too small. Besides, they had Ross Browner and a few others that year, so they didn't need a defensive...
...CAST DOES a more than competent job of keeping Rabe's sometime disjointed work llowing smoothly through moments of both absurdist comedy and high dramatic tension. Some of the credit belongs to director Warren Browner, who had chosen to de-emphasize the play's surrealism and treat it more as a parody of those cheerfully resilient American types, forced for once to confront and destroy the product of their own invested values...
...sergeant who brings the Vietnam veteran. David home; speaking in harsh clipped tones, more like a robot than a man, the sergeant seems to belong to a different play. Another, more annoying problem is the cast's general difficulty in dealing with Rabe's overtly symbolic passages. Because of Browner's naturalistic handling of the play it's starting at times to hear characters suddenly hurting into literary effusion or even conscientiously using the formal "do not" in place of the colloquial contraction...
...closed grey van drove into the courtyard of Rome's Fort Bravetta. It stopped by a hillock of brown grass, browner dirt. In front of the hillock stood a nakedly bare pine chair...