Word: coliseums
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...scene is the Los Angeles Coliseum, packed with roaring, screaming fans watching a National Football League championship play-off game. The star is Jim Brown, once the most celebrated fullback in professional football. But is Brown bucking the line? Nope. This time he's lining up the buck. Aided by a gang of professional goons-Ernest Borgnine, Jack Klugman, Warren Gates, Donald Sutherland-Brown is robbing the Coliseum...
...Charlotte, N.C., the Coliseum was jammed by a crowd of 14,000 including many Negroes and students. In Salt Lake City, Nashville, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Humphrey savored cheers. After the Viet Nam speech, antiwar hecklers stilled their protests for the most part...
...their happiest hours in the dark, cool interiors of various bars, where they were joined by Southern's girlfriend. But as becomes participant-journalists, they showed up at all the proper rebellious places. At the un-birthday party thrown for Lyndon Johnson by the hippies in the Chicago Coliseum, they matched animalistic descriptions of the cops. Burroughs called them "vicious dogs," and asked: "Is there not a municipal ordinance requesting that vicious dogs be muzzled and controlled?" Genet thought a better description was "mad dogs, who for the past 150 years have done the same thing, with even greater...
Will Steven Armstrong has designed the settings so that simple maneuvering can quickly shift the locations from jungle to crossroads, from the exterior of the Coliseum to the amphi-theatre inside. And Arthur (not Artur) Rubinstein has provided clever incidental music that makes periodic and parodic references to jazz, Ravel, and Respighi...
...shame that Charlie Hodge could not have been sitting in a front-row box at the Oakland Coliseum one night last week-instead of crouching in the nets, tending goal for the National Hockey League's Oakland Seals. Then he might have had a good look at the shot that beat him. For 57 frantic minutes, while a record crowd of 12,025 howled itself hoarse, the improbable Seals-an expansion team that played its first game only last October-battled the fearsome Chicago Black Hawks to a 0-0 standoff. Outmanned, outskated, outshot, the Seals somehow hung...