Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Football goals: "My first goal was to play in the Stadium. I accomplished that pretty quickly. My second goal was to do something as an individual -- other than a special team. Now I've got that, too. There's nothing long-range, though. I take it week to week. I want to punt in the Yale game and punt well. But my job is just to get the ball and get it off as fast...
When the season got underway, MacMurray was ready for his job, but not quite confident of his abilities. "That first game I was shaking in my boots, and the second game wasn't much better," he recalls. His statistics, however, with the help of some long rolls, don't reflect there was ever any lack of confidence...
...company began with Nashville's loose, polyphonic structure, and crammed 48 characters into it, without, it seems, thinking much about who all those people were, and why we needed to meet them. You get the feeling that the improvisatory style which worked so well in Nashville just never got off the ground this time. The characters are awkward stereotypes, and the little vignettes are often cruel and crude. But the film gets better as it goes along. Altman's whipped up a surrealistic storm sequence that will stun you, and in quieter scenes he's evolved some subliminal editing techniques...
...American colonialism was hardly much nicer than the African variety. Our continent's indigenous people, the American Indians, were simply routed from their land and murdered. Instead of exploiting the labor of our "natives," as the Europeans did in Africa, we just got rid of them...
...resigned to spending the rest of the autumn indoors watching professional athletes, then you'll certainly be at Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon to watch the Crimson football team match-up against Cornell in (if you'll excuse me) the battle of the cellar-dwellars. Of course, I've got to point out that Cornell and Harvard, who are currently occupying the bottom two rungs of the Ivy League column after only one game, both sport better overall records than the two co-leaders, Yale and Dartmouth--so there...