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...most effective way. For example, I believe Larry Brown deserved to be the starting quarterback, but to watch him run the football--a must for the quarterback in the multiflex arrangement--made me cringe almost as much as I did while watching Rod Foster, subbing for Eric "Endzone' Crone, try to throw the ball...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: One Spectator's Unwanted and Unimportant Views | 11/16/1977 | See Source »

...farm from whites, of her own escape with Milkman's father, their quarrel and separation, and her subequent adventures. She weaves a complex fable of magic, death, ghosts and hidden treasure. Nourished by these tales, Milkman retraces his family's steps. He travels to Pennsylvania where a crone named Circe adds to his family history. In the small Virginia town where his grandfather was born, Milkman hears a group of children sing a song that provides the key to his past. The refrain, "Solomon done fly, Solomon done gone/ Solomon cut across the sky, Solomon gone home,"tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Native Daughter | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...Jenny, for company, moves in with her grandparents, who have decorated her room with all the furnishings of her childhood. Instead of reassuring her, the trappings of girlhood seem to hurry Jenny back to a period of intense vulnerability. She is haunted by a presentiment of death, an old crone with a face wrinkled into bird tracks, her left eye a bulging black socket. Jenny, who has taken a lover, flirts with another, a physician named Tomas. She finds herself helpless at work, stricken by malignant anxiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Over the Edge | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...carpet of dust of El Bahu's one street, a skinny crone pats into bricks a mass of inky black, slimy mud mixed with straw, the same kind of building material used in Moses' time. The old woman's husband, Hammouda Hamed, tills his two acres of land very much as his ancient Egyptian ancestors did. He lifts water from irrigation rivulets to his field by hand-turning an Archimedean screw invented in antiquity. He gets water up to the level of the field by the ages-old device of blindfolding his gamoosa (water buffalo) and driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: How the Bottom Billion Live | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

Instead of Eric Crone, Rod Foster, Jimmy Stoeckel, and Milt Holt to choose from, Restic has a Mike Lynch, a Jim Kubacki, a Steve O'Brien, and a slew of others competing for the starting...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Coach Restic Searches for a Quarterback | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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