Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Providence margin in half, converting a pass from captain John Cochrane, but the tally, Benson's fifth of the year, lulled the Crimson back into a state of complacency. Harvard's Jim Trainor refused to knock Friar Steve O'Neill from the slot in front of Hynes, and the forward easily collected a pass from Bauer and beat Hynes from five feet out just 39 seconds after Benson's goal...
...exam loss to powerful Boston State, 10-0, took some of the edge off the lone Harvard win; but with a 1-1-1 record in Ivy League play, the women look forward to presenting some formidable competition in the upcoming Ivy tournament...
...setters. As Robert Sabbag wrote in Snow Blind, his hip account of the cocaine trade: "To snort cocaine is to make a statement. It is like flying to Paris for breakfast." Those who have been arrested for possessing it include Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richard, New York Rangers Forward Don Murdoch, TV Star Louise Lasser, Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and one of the owners of Manhattan's top discotheque, Studio 54, where a flashing light tableau shows the man in the moon sniffing coke from a spoon...
Every Which Way goes in every which direction to no particular avail. It is nearly impossible to sit through. Chase scenes, barroom brawls and barehanded boxing matches follow in dizzying succession, but the movie rarely lurches forward. Director James Fargo (Caravans) seems to delight in disorienting the audience: it is a major chore to figure out who is punching whom, not to mention why. For punctuation, there are running gags. Ruth Gordon pops up, without warning or justification, to do her foul-mouthed-old-lady routine; the Gray Panthers would be well advised to have an injunction slapped...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my room...