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...porous closeups and compositions with profiles looming large in one corner or another of the wide-screen frame. The music is another Leone trademark. In the Eastwood epics, it will be remembered, a jew's-harp twanged madly every time an eyebrow was arched. Here Leone recruits some hapless vocalist to make melodramatic noises that seem to be an imitation of a bullfrog with bronchitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playing Guns | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...junior varisty race Saturday, Harvard demolished Princeton by 17.7 seconds and the hapless Engineers by 29.8 seconds or about seven and a half boat lengths...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Heavies Brush Aside MIT, Princeton | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...next 17 seasons established a reputation for graceful fielding at first base and timely long-ball hitting. He set a National League record for grand-slam home runs (14) that still stands. After managing the Washington Senators for five years, he returned to New York to take over the hapless, tenth-place Mets. The next season Hodges led his team to the 1969 pennant and an upset World Series victory over the Baltimore Orioles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 17, 1972 | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

Tonight the Crimson closes its season against hapless Cornell in Ithaca, and a win will assure it of finishing in at least third place in the League standings...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Five Nips Columbia, 86-84 | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

Springfield, which has never beaten Harvard in swimming, will probably push the Crimson somewhat harder than Brown. They had little trouble slaughtering the hapless Bruins, but are still not a serious threat. "Where we won handily against Brown, we will be pressed closer for wins against Springfield," Coach Don Gambril said...

Author: By Terry Straus, | Title: Swimmers Meet Springfield Tonight; Lopsided Win Expected in Contest | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

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