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...system director." Miller was a college fullback (Notre Dame) until he was sidelined by an injury; his father, Ray T. Miller, was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Browns. "I've always wanted to be an owner like my father," he says. Tippit was a boyhood baseball freak who wanted to keep Cleveland a major-league city. With the authority of a $250,000 in vestment, he helps run the town's base ball team, the Indians...
These things only get beyond their usualness by being caught so precisely and spontaneously to begin with. There is a clear effort to avoid the freak image, wailing for attention. Because the camera asserts its simple means, the slight twist of a wide angle lens, for instance, is able to take hold of its subject with all the more force, and draw together spaces separated by a wall or pillar into a new single sense...
...January 7 the Crimson five lost another close contest to Northeastern, 55-54, on a freak play. Lou Silver had two foul shots with two seconds to play with the score 55-53 in favor of Northeastern. He missed the first, and then Northeastern called time...
GRATEFUL DEAD--My grudge against the Dead has little to do with the group, whose singing, playing and songwriting ability and charisma are universally acknowledge. It's just that every Dead freak I've known insists on playing Dead albums endlessly or sitting me down to hear "just the greatest song you've ever heard," They're not my favorite group, but it doesn't matter. Anyone going to this concert no doubt planned two months ago to attend. Be grateful the concert isn't taking place in New York where the smoking pleasures Dead audiences indulge in now earn...
...final analysis, however, each subway freak chooses his own spot in the MBTA--and there are plenty to choose from. When I'm depressed, my favorite is the Central Square stop of the Red Line, when the last train of the night is due, and the station is deserted. A big iron monster takes the place of the turnstile after the man at the change booth has gone home for the night. On particularly bad nights, the iron monster will swallow your quarter and not allow you on the platform. But there is nothing in Boston that quite compares with...