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...with brilliant acting. Marlon Brando, of course, is the big news, revitalizing his erratic reputation with a performance of power and poignance as the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone. Yet superb as he is, Brando is merely reclaiming a position already staked out. In some ways more exciting are the clutch of little-known younger performers who burst forth in the film. Of these, none is more compelling than a short, brooding coil of tension named Al Pacino...
Leverett then initiated a frantic press, but Runyan and Luckner came through with clutch ball handling and key foul shots to give the 'Cliffe a 45-38 victory...
Clarkson had combined opportunism with some poor Harvard defense to come back from a 3-2 second-period deficit, but it was helpless against Corkery's clutch goal, a typical flying rush down the right wing finished off by a no-angle bullet to the far corner of the Clarkson cage...
...been under serious consideration for months, and White House aides have been floating the idea in what amounts to a test-marketing program among Congressmen and state and local officials. The possibility that a form of VAT will be imposed at some future date has raised a clutch of fundamental questions about the whole creaking tax system...
Besides Leonard, a clutch of film makers are complaining about Aubrey's cutting-room tactics-and in some cases going to court-in what amounts to the biggest uprising against a major studio that Hollywood veterans can recall. Items...