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...study an opponent, searching for clues to his intentions, then outmaneuvering him to break up the play. It can be as simple as noting the direction of an enemy lineman's charge-and divining that the play will go the opposite way. It can also be pretty cute. "When an offensive guard comes up to the line," says Tackle Ray Jacobs of the American Football League's Miami Dolphins, "I watch the way he sets himself. Some guys lean back on their haunches, which means that they're either going to pull...
...another and quick jump cuts from faces to bodies and back again, yet never consistently settles on a style. There is even a disappointing touch of TV situation comedy. A domestic argument ends with the toast popping out of the toaster, a visit to the zoo features the inevitable cute chimp mugging in its cage...
...Miniskirts may be cute on the campus and boisterous at the beach, but your cover article [Dec. 1] omits that spot where they are truly most appealing: the garment industry's pocketbook. What could be sweeter than taking an ordinary skirt, cutting it into three pieces, and then selling each piece for twice as much as the original...
Offsetting that fraternal knife job was the performance of Chuck's sister, Marguerite Trenham Robb, 19, a gabby gamine who failed to nab Lynda's bouquet but caught the fancy of every member of the wedding ("Trenny, you're cute," sighed L.B.I.). An aspiring fashion designer and model, Trenny set the White House asparkle during the wedding week with her five rings, her silver miniskirts, her flowing brown tresses and her Twiggy eyelashes. "You know," she suggested out of nowhere one day, "I ought to start a romance with George-wouldn't that...
Mayer's inversions are often tragically funny in context; Drew again, on being excluded from the business operations: "Them boys is getting a damn sight too cute." Fisk's dialog masterfully combines bad grammar and vernacular with innumerable phrases from the Bible. "Poor suffering bastards," he yells at the crowd he has cheated, "You want your money? It has gone where the woodbine twineth...