Word: flickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whatever flicker of hope the Crimson had for a comeback were unceremoniously snuffed out at 37:03, however, when two-time small college All-American Marion Stoj converted an indirect free kick resulting from an obstruction call through a screen of Harvard players for a 2-0 lead...
...that nobody could buy her. She was wrong: they could and did for years." It is a rather sad irony that the book should be called Pentimento, an artist's term for an old image that reappears through later repainting done on a canvas. Singular and moving memories flicker everywhere, but few emerge clearly...
...screen Tatum is a pixie. Her moods flicker from gleeful to sassy, and she dreams of growing up to "wear big elevator shoes and great clothes." She confided to TIME'S Mary Cronin that "what was good about the film was that I got to know my father better." Then, green eyes sparking, she adds: "You have got to admit he did very well." Actually, Tatum stole scene after scene...
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA by Eliot Porter. Dutton. $21.95. Before the lens of noted Nature Photographer Porter, the common chipping sparrow looks as powerful and dramatic as the Owl-Magician in Swan Lake. The common flicker is seized for eternity as the extraordinarily marked bird that he is-though most country strollers only see him taking off ahead of them with a flash of white rump. In an engagingly informal text, Porter is most fascinating describing the lengths to which a bird photographer will go to get results. Once, to reach a kinglet's nest, he simply sawed...
...played football in our neighborhood to prove you were a man, and you played rough. No fancy suburban passing, no wild flea-flicker plays, just a hard-nosed ass-kicking running game between the tackles. Football was always pushed as a way out of our neighborhood. If you hit hard and came to practice every day, you could go to college and not have to work in the steel mills...