Word: gremlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold weather may have had something to do with the quarterbacks' ineffectiveness, but Zimmerman's own particular gremlin was Dan Begel, a Yale back who intercepted one of his passes and broke up several others. Zimmerman redeemed himself by running a number of quarterback sneaks for big gains, adding a good deal to the Crimson's total of 193 yards rushing...
...Cool World, an adaptation of Warren Miller's novel (TIME, June 15), has a cast of young Negroes re-creating adolescent gang 'life in Harlem. After watching a gremlin-bugged Philadelphia opening (sandwiches flew from plates, breakaway bottles seemed made of high-grade steel, actors slipped and slid on the turntable set), Inquirer Critic Henry Murdock called it a "disturbing play, so close to commentary on a current scene that one wishes it might also have been a more effective play...