Word: fake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first drive of the final quarter, defensive pass interference against tight end Chuck Marshall moved the Crimson to the Brown 40. Following an incomplete pass, St. John laced a perfect 30-yd. toss to Horner on a post pattern and the split end slipped over the goal line. A fake extra point failed and Harvard trailed...
...Sidney Joseph Perelman first began publishing his superbly crafted hilarity in the pages of The New Yorker. The magazine's readers soon developed a tart tooth for Perelman's brand of satire, a mix of burlesque and Joycean wordplay boldly colored by a fastidious disdain for the fake, the tawdry and the pompous. Even the titles of Perelman's "bits of embroidery," as he called his pieces, set new boundaries for comic absurdity: Somewhere a Roscoe; Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy; Amo, Amas, Amat, Amamus, Amatis, Enough; Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away; No Starch...
...Tigers once again got a lesson in the Law of the Jungle when the duo of Ferrante and St. Louis proved to be fitter than the Princeton defense. On a quick counter attack play, Ferrante fed a 25-ft. pass to St. Louis, who only took time to fake her way past a defenseman before bulleting the ball into...
...punted the ball to Scoon, who was waiting next to the deepest Princeton fullback. As Scoon scooted towards right hand corner of the field to get a better angled shot, three Tiger defensemen charged her. Without cutting down on her exceptional speed, Scoon pulled off both a step-over fake and a body fake, which confused the defense and prevented it from stopping her scoring shot...
...Ramones themselves--bird-like Joey, Johnny with the hair over his eyes, and the other two--steal this scene, and the others they're in. They come across as comical, friendly, even beneficent, despite the leather and fake frozen sneers. A full-fledged Ramones movie starring the band--a sort of latter-day Hard Day's Night--would have made a lot more sense than what director Allan Arkush has given...