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...then down to serious business. The Cardinals wrestle against the Cowboys and your football blood starts on its slow boil. These games are always exciting and bring out the manic fool in you. You spend two hours yelling absurd things like "DECK HIM! DECK HIM!," and the game's inevitable last-second finish leaves you shaking and babbling all night like a refrigerator on the fritz. That night nothing except counting audibles will put you to sleep...
...waited on deck," reports Carruthers, the narrator, a clever, foppish young Foreign Office sprig who has just joined Davies, a sea-struck Oxford classmate, on his cruising boat, "and watched the death-throes of the suffocating sands under the relentless onset of the sea ... The Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received ... Soon her warp tightened and her nose swung slowly round; only her stern bumped now, and that with decreasing force. Suddenly she was free and drifting broadside to the wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward...
...echoed in the accents of Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave (who plays the abducted actress) and Georgia Brown (Frau Freud), who sound as if they are revving up to address a bund rally. Joel Grey also appears, but so briefly that he accents nothing. The ace in this poorly shuffled deck is, no surprise, Olivier. He has not often done comedy on screen, but his extravagantly funny Moriarty is a creation of wit and invention...
...Sept. 29,1967, Alex Haley quietly celebrated a private bicentennial He stood on a wharf at Annapolis Md exactly 200 years to the day after his great-great-great-great grandfather stumbled off the deck of the slave ship Lord Ligonier at the same spot. His ancestor was Kunta Kinte, one of 98 "Negroes" who managed to survive the three-month trip from West Africa. The original consignment, "packed like spoons in a drawer " included 140 Africans. The one-third loss, Haley notes drily, was about average for an 18th century slave voyage...
...With the deck stacked against them, unemployed strikers with families to support have shown remarkable restraint--possibly due to the historically difficult position of many Cambion workers: half are women, and a third are Portuguese-Americans, many of whom cannot speak English. However, in recent weeks Cambion has succeeded in bringing in 15 former strikers to work. Few other union members are likely to follow, but there are rumors among the strikebreakers that Cambion plans to begin bringing in new outside workers. Such a move would represent a serious provocation, with potentially disastrous consequences...