Word: headgears
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Being of quite a different stripe this year, the Cincinnati Bengals have sprung from last to first in the National Football League's A.F.C. Central, and it all began with the helmets. Men have been shot out of cannons wearing less gaudy headgear, but there is more to these new helmets than a profusion of tiger stripes...
...that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing hop-scotch--one wearing Uncle Sam's top hat, the other a Cossack's headgear...
McCue and Redford are not the only characters to don headgear. But neither Jeff Horwitz as Pozzo, a representative of the society that Beckett challenges, nor Lisa Claudy, as Pozzo's servant Lucky who responds to his master's every call, can remove their hats with the same aplomb. They lack Redford and McCue's dramatic dexterity. Horwitz seems content to outshout the rest of the actors, sounding more vaudevilian than dramatic. Claudy is not up to Beckett's extremely demanding monologue that satirizes Joyce, and sounds uncomfortable with the speed with which she must utter Lucky's stream...
...self-styled tough guy, he was notorious for driving his players to the limit. His training camp in the Tonto National Forest was known as Kush's Koncentration Kamp. But Kush claims that he treated players "like my sons." Says he: "I have slapped kids on the headgear with my hand, and believe me, it hurts my hand a heck of a lot more than it will ever hurt the kids. I want them to look...
...vintage Jimmy McHugh songs to beguile the ear, notably Don't Blame Me, I Feel a Song Comin ' On, I Can 't Give You Anything but Love, Baby. A patriotic red-white-and-blue finale with a naval motif finds the chorus sporting frigates for headgear and sends most playgoers out of the house on a wave of euphoria...