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This is the week for Restic's men. The offense must prove that its BU performance was no fluke, and the defensive secondary, despite last week's mini renaissance, must be tougher dudes than they have been so far. If not, New York's gonna be a lonely town...
...fluke. I attended the first screening of Boorman's previous film open to anyone outside of MGM brass. Boorman was there. A young, very intelligent and open man, he confessed what he felt were his own limits, saying that he'd blown apart some of his films in desperate attempts transcend story, his hope was to find a situation which could be developed in cinematic terms as cleanly as possible, with little expository verbiage and much complexity of image. At least in technique. Deliverance is the film he's been working towards. You can take any one of his frames...
...mistake by an MIT defender on a shot by Hinze made the score 2-0 when the fullback's clearing shot boomed into the MIT net. The next goal, however, was no fluke. On an indirect kick from just outside the penalty area. Hinze, on a beautiful set-up by left wing Demetrio Mena, picked the short side and chipped the ball just inside the post for his second goal...
Dancer Isadora Duncan died as dramatically as she lived, when her long scarf became caught in the wheel of a moving car and strangled her. A one-in-a-million fluke? Not quite. Flowing neckwear has been in style recently, and according to an article in the A.M.A. Journal, so have freakish-and often fatal-injuries. In one of eleven cases studied, a teen-age girl suffered severe facial cuts and bruises when her scarf snagged in the wheel of her boy friend's motorcycle. An eleven-year-old boy whose scarf caught in the engine of his snowmobile...
...involved in these things now and then out of a sense of obligation. I just try to make sure that I'm effective. Mostly, for the last two years. I've been working on a novel I got involved with the McCarthy campaign by a fluke. He needed someone, and I was free. It was a responsibility I couldn't refuse, he was he most hopeful thing happening in this country. (I was known in certain literary political circles as a "radical," and a friend of mine knew McCarthy and showed him some essays I had written on education...