Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calhoun-Berkeley rallied to score on an 80-yard screen pass on which the receiver avoided a swarm of tacklers and just managed to stay in bounds. The two-point conversion on a fake kick clinched the victory...
...fact, the whole thing looked like a costume party, only nobody thought they were in costume. Some of the more subdued party-goers arrived in white tie and tails, but a number of enthusiasts did their bit to kick off the Harvard weekend by wearing tiger-striped suits and fake tiger-fur jackets. Their "dates" ("This is my date Sally," was the standard introduction), imported by the bus-and train-load full from Briarcliff, Wheaton, Manhat-tanville, and even as far away as North Carolina, wore outfits that had never known the rack at Filene's basement--or anywhere else...
...margin did not stand up for long against the swarming Ephmen. Williams forward Henry Osborn gained control of the ball near midfield and led a three-man attack against two Crimson defenders. Osborn gave a slight fake and then knifed through the Harvard fullbacks. His shot eluded a sprawling Ben Bryan at 32:09, and the game was deadlocked, 1-1, at halftime...
Citizens then take the fake bills to Turin's post office and pay the lesser rate...
Essentially, the problem is the choreography. It is almost as much mime as ballet. The story is a complicated slap stick tale about a flirtatious town clown, his enemies and his inamorata (complete with mistaken identities, a fake death and an implausibly happy ending) that defies compression as well as credibility. Massine's scenario is too highly stylized to allow for many low jinks; the result is commedia dell'arte without any comedy, Punch-and-Judy minus the punch. The occasional moments of raffish humor are all provided by quick-legged Gary Chryst, 24, who leaps, whirls, jigs...