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...novel is an eleven-year-old orphan whose mother was "the wildest girl in Marengo County, Alabama." More practical than Mama, Addie Pray takes up traveling with Long Boy Pray, one of several men who might be her father, in order to help him "do business"-meaning back-country bunco jobs...
...precisely the right attitude of bewildered reality lost in myth, a photograph projected on a Frederic Remington painting. Unhappily, not all the cast is as comfortable in their roles. Some of the whites, such as Faye Dunaway as a preacher's oestrous wife, and Martin Balsam as a bunco artist, play like fugitives from a road company of The Drunkard, with galvanic gestures and frozen speech patterns. The Human Beings, by contrast, are a people of dignity and variety. Among them are the homosexual Little Horse; the contrary Younger Bear, who says "hello" for "goodbye" and bathes in dirt...
Over the soul-searching interim since Wednesday the inviolable prestige of Harvard began to show chinks as questions of high morality and undistilled bunco soared...
Scott spiels and deals like a 19th century bunco artist out of Texas Guinan by W. C. Fields, yet incongruously wheels a shiny red convertible around like a hell driver. His partner, mooning around Sue Lyon's earthy smile, is a love-struck leftover from turn-of-the-century melodrama, yet speaks the language of the contemporary soldier. Like the cars its heroes steal and riotously wreck, the script starts strong but plots its own collision course, and eventually piles up in a harmless heap of miscellaneous parts that no longer mesh. The viewer, who begins by sympathizing with...
...spearheaded by halfbacks Bob Emerson and Mickey Howe. Ends Fran Sweeney and Bill Anderson have been frequent targets for Degutis, and much of the Crimson's success will depend on bottling up these four. HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Mullen l.e. Sweeney Batchelder l.t. Harris Shaw l.g. Clay Monteith c. Dellert Bunco r.g. Craver Hill r.t. Halberslaben Sawyer r.e. Anderson Kierstead q.b. Degutis Tsavaris l.h.b. Emerson French r.h.b. Howe Kendall f.b. Scott