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...recent scrimmages. Lee noted the freshmen suffered "stage fright." "They didn't do as well as I expected," he said." And I know they are able to compete in top form. It's important that they stay confident...
...that Hoss is chicken. Everyone should be provided with a text before they enter the playhouse. If the words are often unclear, their intent is not. This is language as an instrument of murder, of a primordial bloodlust deep in man's loins. Pacifists of the world, take fright...
...Unlike their colleagues of the written word, cartoonists found the campaign an easy mark. The Denver Post's Oliphant was consistently on target, and that target was Nixon?Nixon grimly outfitting Agnew with a fright wig and electric guitar for the benefit of the 18-year-old voters, Nixon attacked by creeping "Watergate bugs." Don Hesse of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reserved much of his fire for McGovern's foot-in-mouth campaign statements and woeful showing in the polls; a characteristic Hesse offering shows McGovern, in tattered football gear, telling a dispirited huddle, "Cheer up?...
...some basic facts: Jr. was a two-year bull-riding champion, now nearing 40, a bit past his prime, Sunshine has never been ridden for the full 8 seconds time. The gate to the pen is thrown open, clowns dressed in baggy checked pants and vests and red fright wigs lure the bull out and get him jumping. Bonner holds on to the rope knot as if his gloves were glued to it, but his ass is thrown off the bull's hump as soon as his jaunt begins. It's going to be a rough few moments...
...middle-class milieu.) Unlike Taking Off, Passer's film switches suddenly from slick comedy to terror and sordidness as JJ's companion mistakenly shoots himself up with rat poison intended for JJ and crumples to his death. JJ drags him to an elevator, then flees in fright. The body lies inert across the doorway, the arms flexing up over the chest and relaxing as the automatic door tries again and again to close...