Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Herold, the goaltender for this year's beleaguered soccer squad, was an "automatic choice," according to coach George Ford. "He did a remarkable job for us this year, and the vote for him was overwhelming...
...plague-on-both-your-houses impartiality-helped to trivialize the campaign and thus contributed to the public's turned-off mood. Looking back on many of the '"issues" that dominated the headlines-ethnic purity, the Playboy interview, Clarence Kelley's valances, the Eastern Europe gaffe, Ford's finances-it's hard to escape the feeling that the press coverage has a lot to answer for. In the pack mentality of campaign journalism, once some characteristic in a candidate is spotlighted-Carter's "fuzziness," Ford's fumbling-it is endlessly insisted on. In Playboy...
...press found its usual role of disinterested reporter usurped on two sides. On one side was the widespread parodying of news techniques in political commercials. It was deplorable, for example, to see Sportscaster Joe Garagiola serving up fungoes to Jerry Ford in imitation of a reporter asking searching questions. The working press also found itself outranked by the favors granted to guest journalists. Hoping to reach the sizable but apathetic young audience, Carter talked lengthily to Rolling Stone's self-centered Hunter S. Thompson (who neglected to quote Jimmy), to Norman Mailer (Carter said a four-letter word...
Onscreen, Stallone radiates more boyish bravado than Brando's brooding rage. Says Co-star Talia Shire, sister of Francis Ford Coppola: "Francis was an innocent when he first succeeded and so is Sly." Innocent or not, Stallone is probably onto the right screen image at the right time. Boggled by grim, paranoid plots like Marathon Man and savage heroes like the Taxi Driver, audiences may be ready to buy his gentler, uncomplicated machismo. Stallone is sure of it. At a private screening of Rocky for his mother last week he leaped on-stage during the first reel and shouted...
...opening victory over Columbia, Coach George Ford found himself having to juggle a lineup marred by injuries to Acorn, Dave Eaton, Martin and Bullard (who played nonetheless) and several others. The list of incapacitated players was just as long Saturday, as starters Kevin Jiggetts and Chris Saunders could not play, and both co-captains played on sore legs...