Word: dowding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHRISTOPHER F. DOWD...
...Berkowitz to turn off the ignition, get out of the car and place his hands on top of it. Having followed the mountains of clippings about Son of Sam closely-a scrapbook of them was found in his apartment-Berkowitz recognized the arresting officers' leader, Deputy Inspector Timothy Dowd. "Inspector, you finally got me," he said quietly to Dowd. "I guess this is the end of the trail...
Winthrop's Bob Lindsay was the big gun, scoring both of his team's early goals assisted by Otsuki. The line of Lindsay, Otsuki and Kevin Noughton gave Kirkland trouble all night. Chris "BoBo" Dowd singled out their passing as a key to the victory...
...Dowd has a blood connection to professional athletics. Her brother Frank is a minor-league hockey player who served as the film's technical adviser...
...effective. Slowly one passes from shock to sympathy and laughter. One appreciates as well Director Hill's solid realization of the minor-league ambience?plasticized motels and bars, dreary arenas, the grubby team bus?and the brisk, vivid sketches of recognizable jock types with which he and Screenwriter Dowd* have peopled the Chiefs. Unquestionably, the film makers are at tempting a valid moral statement. Their concern is not merely with the decline of hockey from artful sport into blood spectacle, but also with the general tendency of pop cultural enterprise to go for the vulgar and the sensational, then...