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...ones. They splash around in the sentimentality. They sing along in the way that Churchill used to rumble the lines of Hamlet from his seat in the audience at the Old Vic. They stooge around: imagine Howard Cosell in the part of Rick Blaine and recite the lines in Cosellian cadence: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: We'll Always Have Casablanca | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

When Howard Cosell recapped the contest the following night on Monday Night Football, the Browns and their title were all but forgotten. All he could talk about was McInally. He talked about the illegal hit, and he talked about the tying touchdown. And then in his best Cosellian tones he waxed philosophical: "Don't tell me they don't make 'em tough up at Harvard...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, | Title: When Harvard Meets the Super Bowl | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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