Word: complement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only two real security scares before the story finally broke. The first came in 1973, when a labor dispute erupted between engineers and the mining complement on board the Glomar Explorer. The engineers resented the fact that the mining technicians, rather than the captain, really ran the ship. That dispute moved quietly into the courts. The second scare came shortly before the Glomar Explorer put to sea to salvage the submarine. A rash of burglaries of Hughes' company offices scattered across the West culminated in the early morning of June 5, 1974, in a break-in of Hughes...
...turned this disparate collection of players into a unified league beater is soft-speaking, second-year Coach K.C. Jones. A paradigm of defensive skill during his nine seasons with the Boston Celtics, Jones insists that his players complement their effective fast break with unrelenting defensive pressure. As a result, the Bullets are now the second stingiest team in the league. "We believe offense is for shooters and defense is for all five guys," says Jones. "Fortunately, our starters are all shooters...
...slips into druggy melancholy, paranoia and self-pity, grooming himself for martyr dom. Then, abruptly, irony is forsaken, and he becomes a full-fledged martyr, dying flamboyantly on-camera, done in by the same forces that created him. It is a facile, melodramatic conclusion that does nothing to complement all the good that has gone before...
...visual jokes are imaginative and successful. A "bullet" sequence parodies some of the cliches of silent film comedy; a threatening group sneaks up behind someone who turns around with a frown, and they scamper away in terror. This is set to music that is its perfect complement. But elsewhere the music is less successful: it is scattered, somehow, never coming together to a really memorable tune or grand chorus, rarely providing the aural punch to go along with visual jokes...
Sanders, a former Celtic great who was known as a defensive specialist, offers candid glimpses at the thoughts and emotions of a professional basketball player to complement the illustrations of the Celtics churning up and down the court...