Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Except for pretty, red-haired Moira Shearer, the film is not very fortunate in its performers. Miss Shearer, a ballet dancer appearing in her first movie, is an attractive actress who looks wonderful in tights. The dancing, featuring Leonide Massine and Robert Helpmann as both choreographers and performers, is proficient. But, during the longest ballet sequence, the badly inflamed Technicolor will not make the picture any more exciting to balletomanes. People who don't much care for the ballet to begin with may conclude from The Red Shoes that ballet folk are a more tiresome lot of exhibitionists offstage...
...Except for passing and punting, the Big Green manufactured a decisive edge in the statistical department. Dartmouth made 16 first downs to Harvard's 11, and gained 224 yards rushing, twice as much as the Crimson total...
...story of the game lies in the fact that except in two cases, Dartmouth did its gaining between the 30-yard lines. Harvard only stiffened in front of its goal, with the result that the visitors rolled up big midfield gains...
Chip Gannon was the other man who Stood out in the backfield. He contrived a series of gainers, including the scoring run, and might have really gone wild except for the work of Captain Dale Armstrong at end and George "Iron Man" chreek backing the line. These two were poison to Crimson backs all afternoon...
...Except for the Varsity soccer team's 4 to 0 victory over Dartmouth on Friday it was an all-Green weekend. The Jayvee gridders succumbed 13 to 7, and in the feature attraction on the weekend sports card, the Varsity bowed...