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...model of inefficiency. Phone wires, some disconnected, make Boren's desk look like a spaghetti bowl. Papers, stamps and stamp pads are everywhere. One example: "Cleared/Deputy Associate Assistant Chairman/Committee on Clearances/NATAPROBU." There are copies of Inaction Line, the organization's own very occasional publication; a clutch of bureaucrat pencilsfeaturing erasers at both endsand even copies of a society song called Let's Fingertap Together. Boren estimates that the organization has about 300 members, but admits the roster has not grown much in the past year. Bureaucratic inefficiency has slowed recruiting, of course...
Despite Goodman's happiness about the clutch safety, he expressed disappointment. "It's a real shame that those guys not only outclass us on a journalistic plane, but on an athletic one as well...
...consensus of the offensive unit seems to be that they would prefer to go with one quarterback to the end. There is not as much agreement as to which quarterback it should be, but Foster has been most effective in the clutch. The quarterbacks themselves are fed up with the whole situation...
...Hoyt Trophy, a major intersectional, Reeve, with John Roberts as crew, ran away with division A, and Koch, with Dave Little crewing, was disqualified in division B's first race and had to turn in a clutch performance in the next four races to take low-point skipper honors...
...that, the viewer who can wade through an implausible situation, a clutch of cardboard dropouts and painful patches of dialogue will discover a film that is curiously sensitive and affecting. Screenwriter James Bridges (The Appaloosa, The Forbin Project) makes his debut here as a director; his sympathetic approach to the principal characters and an admirable sense of directorial pace eventually overcome his stereotypes and his tin ear for conversation. Even so, Bridges could not remotely have succeeded without engaging performances from Miss Hershey (the willful teen queen from Last Summer) and Sam Groom and Collin Wilcox-Horne...