Word: flagrante
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...Rockne except a ferocious desire to win all the time. His players called him "The Robot," and he drove them mercilessly. "I want to see blood on the quarterbacks' hands when you snap the ball," he told his centers. Rival coaches ac cused Leahy of teaching "dirty football," of flagrant recruiting violations, of "twisting" the rulebook with his "sucker shifts" and faked injuries. But one thing nobody could argue with: his success. With such stars as Johnny Lujack, George Connor, Johnny Lattner, Leon Hart and Ralph Guglielmi, Leahy won four national championships, ran off a string of 39 games without...
...already assembling them) who will defend as art and high realism a book that describes such life and death with the primitive but undeniable power and anger that Author Selby demonstrates. But Last Exit to Brooklyn is not realism at all. Instead, it is a hypocrisy just as flagrant as the old-fashioned kind that wrote for dirty words and **** for scenes of sex. What Selby scrupulously elides are all the pleasant moments of life. What's left, he tells in a style that will also inevitably be hailed as "tape-recorder realism"-because it mumbles like the nonstop...
Amateurs. Somewhat lamely, both Washington and London denied "the validity of the charges," accused Moscow of a "flagrant violation" of the rules of diplomatic immunity. In answer, both Izvestia and Pravda started printing the military secrets the officers were accused of uncovering-for example, a badly overexposed photograph of "twelve rocket carriers for intercontinental missiles...
...plot beyond setting it in twentieth-century Japan I doubt that I shall have to revise my opinion of the film. An artist's failures, of course, should be examined for the light they throw on his successes; but so crude is the directorial technique in The Idiot, so flagrant is the absence of any sort of suspense, that there can be no doubt that the film is a failure, and one that only dedicated Kurosawa fans will want to see. One leaves the theatre feeling that he has gone through not a catharsis but just a two-hour...
...incredible restraint of the adult population of Mississippi in the face of the invasion by hordes of boldfaced, liberally indoctrinated brats is most commendable. It is unbelievable that the National Council of Churches should sponsor such a flagrant and insulting assault on the rights of the white majority. The people of America will give their answer in November, thank...