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...ball fell below the stands, and Harvard manager #2 arrived, and he, not to be outdone, yanked my friend to his feet, and in general acted in a most impressive fashion. Two members of the fuzz appeared on the scene at this point, and, I must say, hey sized up the situation with a brilliance far beyond the call of duly. They grabbed my friend roughly, unhampered for the moment by the Constitution, and escorted him forcefully outside the stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kicking back | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

This Labor Day weekend all across the land, in nearly unimaginable numbers, Americans will be hard at work, puffing and stroking and grinding their teeth as they enjoy a game that seems to consist of swatting fuzz-covered rubber balls across a net. For some years now, this phenomenon has been comfortably referred to as the tennis boom. But the phrase simply no longer serves to describe the massive outpourings of cash and angst, the pop convolutions of status and commerce now going on in the once staid world of tennis. Even the word orgy, though it has some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...American people are. And his message was that all Americans?welfare recipients and welfare workers, black civil rights activists and white segregationists, hardhats and students?are good people. Despite opponents' criticisms that he was two-faced, he almost invariably took the same stand before all audiences. He might fuzz his position on some issues, or omit Martin Luther King's name from a list of great Americans as he spoke before conservatives in Florida, but his basic themes were consistent. They were also upbeat and positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: STAMPEDE TO CARTER | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...women who displayed few secretarial skills but worked on his staff. Bright and charming, they were attractive-but were neither sensational beauties nor sultry playgirls. British Director Jonathan Miller, who once saw them around the White House, claimed that they looked "like unused tennis balls -they had the fuzz still on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Jack Kennedy's Other Women | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...drowning pool itself, a hydrotherapy room that, when flooded, poses a fearful threat to Harper and a fair companion. The rest of the movie is comprised of situations as familiar as the characters: the car-run-off-the-road scene; the private-eye-being-rousted-by-the-local-fuzz scene (cop weighing eye's fire arm: "You got a license for this thing?"); and the final, unpersuasive unearthing-of-the-dark-family-secret scene. The dialogue is also obligatory, right down to the girl's wistful line, "You're not such a tough guy, Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Appointed Rounds | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

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