Word: crackerjacks
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...Quarterback Joe Montana had led San Francisco to its heart-stopping victory over the Dallas Cowboys and to the National Football Conference championship last week, TIME Sport Writer Tom Callahan had already completed much of his reporting for this week's cover story on the 49ers and their crackerjack young star. Callahan had flown to the West Coast the week before to watch San Francisco defeat the New York Giants, and spent the intervening days interviewing the team. Washed out of San Francisco by torrential rains, the 49ers retreated south to dryer practice fields at Anaheim, and Callahan pursued...
...sentimentality glows against the chilliness of the script, and I assume the chill is Griffiths'. It's easy to tell that an Englishman had a hand in the dialogue, since much of it is in their Front Page-filtered notion of how Americans, particularly journalists, talk--the hardboiled, crackerjack repartee. Neither nor Beatty nor Griffiths has the emotional equipment as writers to give Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson)--who has an affair with Bryant when Reed is at a convention--the raging, messy confessional speech he so obviously needs; and so O'Neill puts it in a letter which...
...crackerjack last week, when Ronald Reagan won the AWACS fight. He overcame the objections of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, not to mention the plaints of countless editorial writers and TV double-domes...
...stocking his roster with a set of MX ballplayers--guys who are constantly switching positions and spots in the batting order so the opposition can't formulate a cohesive game plan. New York fans would swizzle tax-free beer and hot dogs, except for the underprivileged school children, whose Crackerjack portions would be reduced to compensate for the loss in tax revenue. Best of all, everyone associated with the team would get to trash those tacky polyester uniforms and get into some chinos and oxford cloth...
...party to an answer to the working woman's prayer: a "liberated" work space, complete with racial harmony, reformed alcoholics, a day-care center and athletic amputees vaulting merrily from wheelchair to desk chair. Through the ordeal, Lily and Dolly prove themselves game professionals. Tomlin is a crackerjack comic actress, even when the confection is stale, and Parton has as fetching a way with a line of dialogue as she has with the curve of an angora sweater. Only Fonda succumbs: she plays her character like a cross between Barbarella and Barbie doll. But that is Higgins...