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Neither team played consistently crisp ball and early season kinks abounded, especially on defense. The officials called 60 personal fouls with three players from each team fouling...
...mystique of pro football, the movie performs a mild disservice to the athletes themselves. Plimpton wrote of football players as sensitive people, worried about injuries and the challenge of younger, faster rookies, fearful of the day when the team could no longer use them, always inwardly satisfied by the crisp precision of a well-executed play. The Lions, playing themselves with obvious relish in the film, live up to the unfortunate image that the public expects-cretinous, backslapping behemoths...
When a colleague in 1960 pointed out that the dots, like those of the op painters, induced afterimages, Poons labored for 18 months to eliminate the effect. In his newest paintings, he has thrown away the sketch pad and the crisp little musical notations altogether...
...another-a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built -is a superhuman task at any time." What makes the playwright's task more difficult today is the death of certain theatrical conventions: "The lukewarm virtues of good craftsmanship, sound construction, effective curtains, crisp dialogue have all been thoroughly debunked...
...risk was that the U.S. command could switch scrip at any time and thus leave speculators holding worthless paper-which is exactly what happened last week. Inside their bases, American personnel were instructed to cash in their MFCs for a series of crisp new ones. They were allowed to exchange up to $250 worth, with no questions asked, but had to give a strict accounting of how they had acquired any MFCs above that amount...