Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STARBOARD SPLINTERS: Rumor around Newell that Washington's lights, the cream of the Western crew crop, may come East for the Sprints. Crimson squad drooling for Huskie match-up and crack at mythical national title...
Terris plays this key murder scene comically, leaving the audience laughing at the victim instead of quaking for him. It is funny, but it makes the rest of the play hard to take seriously; when De Flores cuts off the dead man's finger to remove a ring, the "crack!" that snaps through the theater is as ludicrous as it is horrid...
...possible crack in the dike is in the cage, where John Griffin replaces All-Universe goalie Dan Mackesey. But Griffin has the best defensive line in the country playing in front of him, and he turned in his best performance to date against Hopkins, with 17 saves...
Sparked by the scoring of crack artillery unit Mike Faught (six goals), Steve Martin (three goals, three assists) and Peter Predun (two and three), the entrenched defense of goalie Ken First (20 saves) and a dramatic charge off the bench by Chris "The Beast" Doherty, Harvard controlled the first half before exploding in an 11-goal third quarter to put the game away...
...protagonist--his sympathetic ex-wife, tolerant, devoted doctor, et al--are stock, but Slade fuses each of them with life. As a one-time writer of sit-coms (over 100, it is reported), he must have learned how to play around with stereotypes, searching for that one little crack of humanity in which to insert his fingers, opening the character up. Scottie's business partner, for example, is a huggable, Jewish, Lou Jacobi-type (warmly played by A. Larry Haines), the character who kids in plays always call "Uncle Lou" or "Uncle Irving." The sole function of this fellow...