Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After scrambling to a first down only to fumble, Keyte came back to complete two passes to Jerry Rappaport at the close to the third quarter, putting Harvard on the Brown four yardline. Al Altieri plowed across the line four plays later to put six more points on the board for the Crimson and Tony Cimmarusti added the extra point...
...tested the loyalty of many a Yankee fan, coupled his bat with less-than-graceful Lou Piniella's glove to form one mammoth unsung hero for New York. Dent's three-run homer in the seventh that put the Yankees ahead silenced a too-cocky-for-such-a-close-game Fenway crowd, while Piniella's defensive efforts in Glaucoma Country (sundrenched right field) enabled the lead to hold...
...clutch relief performance stranded the tying run--Burleson--on third, and it put a sudden, cold close to a pulse-stopping contest that everyone knew would be the last of the mad, emotional 1978 regular season...
...period sets and costumes. These are all qualities not to be sneezed at in a time when both entertainment and professionalism in aid of amusement, that not very grand but very basic commodity, are in short supply at the movies. Perhaps it is because the picture comes so close to being something more than entertainment, comes close not to art but to something almost as rare-the genuinely delightful -that one comes away from it uneasily, vaguely disappointed...
...first time. More important, perhaps, Davidson faced one of the toughest courses ever devised for horse and rider. With roots going back to the bloody cavalry charges and elegant military tattoos of the 18th century, three-day eventing tests the full range of a mount's abilities, from deft, close-quarter maneuvers to a cross-country marathon and stadium jumping...