Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rebello and Richard Allen (Abbeville; 342 pages; $75) displays them in both black and white and glorious Technicolor, along with a witty history of this peculiar art form. Charles Laughton's grasping hand reaches for a half-clad Maureen O'Hara in a teaser for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Gary Cooper clutches a gun and Madeleine Carroll clutches him in an ad for The General Died at Dawn (1936); William Powell and Hedy Lamarr gaze out from Crossroads (1942), "where women," promises the caption, "wait to seal your fate!" Even without popcorn, Reel Art is a real hoot...
First, when he limits his book to just a few teams in college basketball, he has problems when it comes to presenting other characters. Great, the reader knows about Steve Kerr, but when other great players like Notre Dame's David Rivers and Temple's Mark Macon are mentioned, Feinstein devotes only a paragraph or two to them...
...bouncing on the toes of his high-top sneakers, Ducey's Pendleton doesn't quite pull off the New Jersey punk of the script, but his portrayal of the native Boston variety is equally winning. There's something about a really thick Boston accent, liberally sprinkled with words like "dame" and "mug," that assures the audience they're dealing with a regular...
...pivot moves were now disturbed by grumpy beer guts. Previously intense rivals were content to catch some air away from the basket. One of my friends pulled his back going for a rebound and another twisted his ankle on a layup. When the word floated out that the Notre Dame-USC game was on, none of us were disappointed to rush inside and settle...
...Notre Dame will face undefeated WestVirginia in the Fiesta Bowl on January 2 for thenational championship...