Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recalls Clark, "consisted of the single-wing quarterback releasing a pass in my general direction, then-being a good Christian gentleman-getting down on his knees to say a prayer." God apparently did not listen to quarterbacks' prayers in those days, and Clark soon went back to the grandstand as a constant spectator and sometime sport reporter. Last week he was on familiar turf, interviewing Joe Namath for our cover story...
Spitz and the other 11,999 athletes from 124 nations opened the Olympiad under the bright Bavarian sunlight in Munich's vast acrylic-domed stadium. The national teams paraded by the grandstand in a panoply of colors as massed bands played modern dance tunes instead of the traditional martial anthems. The Olympic flame, carried some 3,500 miles by an international team of 5,976 runners, was borne to the torch by Gunter Zahn, 18, West German runner. West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated the games with the prescribed 14-word pronunciamento: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating...
...Union. The U.S. contingent was led by Discus Thrower Olga Connolly, 39, the mother of four, who defected from Czechoslovakia in 1956 to marry U.S. Olympian Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly. In a tradition set by the 1908 U.S. Olympic team, she did not dip the American flag before the grandstand* and matched strength with the men of a number of other countries by holding the flag staff at arm's length during much of the march. After the West Germans, as host team, closed the parade, 3,200 Munich schoolchildren sang Sumer Is Icumen In, a far cry from...
...lover. Hus ton also apparently abandoned his ac tors. Keach looks far too intelligent for the part. Although he does many tech nical things splendidly, he lacks emo tional force. Bridges, who was fine in The Last Picture Show, is at loose ends here, and Actress Tyrell's grandstand histrionics turn a surefire part into a Raggedy Ann caricature...
Pocono Downs, the Wilkes-Barre horse track, lies above the town on one of the ridges. It was there, as millions witnessed on network television, that many of the 100,000 evacuees from the city were first brought. In the midst of betting windows and grandstand seats, displaced residents were given temporary shelter and emergency first aid before being scattered out to Civil Defense refuges and hospitals around Luzerne County. Once emergency operations were switched to the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Airport the track reverted to its former function and within a week after the disaster ponies were again trotting where...