Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tortured Plantagenet family. A few times, only a few, Channick and cast falter: Eleanor's exclamation that Geoffrey has loved her all along comes out of nowhere, and Richard's homosexuality is discovered too suddenly, without sufficient preparation. By and large, however, the production zigzags its way excitingly forward, interrupted only by a series of excessively noisy and prolonged set changes between scenes...
...effort to boost her team's sagging fortunes, Carole Kleinfelder, in the spirit of Bob Cousy, turned player-coach and directed her team both on and off the floor. Laurie Frizzell, Kleinfelder's assistant coach, also suited up for the contest, the former Northeastern forward's play sparking the women through the middle of the first half...
...Jocks' second platoon was led by the sterling play of 6-ft. 5-in. Financial Aid Officer John "Too-Tall" Morgan, a Detroit University forward in the early '60s. Morgan contributed 16 points to the winning cause with some tantalizing full-court rushes to the basket, completely overpowering his peerless adversaries...
...second platoon that made the difference in a sloppy second half, replacing Bok's charges after a four-minute scoreless spell in the opening moments. Lanky University Consultant Jim Bailey (Bok: "He really is a consultant, you know, not a ringer") ferociously racked the boards, prompting scrappy forward Lori Christensen to exhort, "Box those turkeys...
...reporters interviewing one another in the glare of floodlights. Extra guards were posted at Government buildings; on the Hill each member of Congress was offered an armed police escort. The Washington Monument was temporarily closed to visitors: it was within the range of snipers. Affairs of state moved forward-cautiously. At the end of his visit with President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin left quietly with no farewell ceremony; incoming British Prime Minister James Callaghan did not receive the traditional 19-gun salute, for fear it might trigger a slaughter. All this was the work of a mere dozen...