Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bums out, and all through the four years we need the right to keep the fellows scared to death that they might be thrown out. Doesn't Carter yet realize that campaigning forces him (and others) to think, take positions, clear fuzzy parts of the brain? The game measures the men. It is tiring and wasteful, but that is always the price for democracy, where competition substitutes for autocracy...
...AMERICAN GAME...
With so many talented documentary-film makers about, it is sad to see a serious budget in the hands of the hacks who made The American Game. The movie's problems begin with its title: Since when is basketball the American game...
...American Game breaks the news that ghetto blacks are poorer than middle-class whites. We also learn that basketball teams play to win, that coaches can be tough taskmasters, that pretty girls and college recruiters fawn over the best players. If these tedious observations were served up in an interesting way, the movie might at least offer some entertainment. No dice. The American Game is a survey of film-making clichés. There are soupy graphics, split-screen effects, a platitudinous narration. The editing is so splintered that even the few potentially good scenes, those set at the heroes...
...animals; the Navy feared that troops on Okinawa would be endangered by a disease called scrub typhus, and Thomas' assignment was to study the dangers. That threat never materialized, so Thomas had to make do with an outbreak of Japanese B encephalitis. It was, he remembers, "the only game in town...