Word: hickey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called pickup matches. They are not staged in rings but on barges, in factories or ware houses, anywhere working men are likely to wager a few bucks of their meager paychecks. Hard Times is a first feature by Walter Hill, who used to be solely a screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles Branson's finest performance to date. If this...
...former's tally ended a 70-yard drive bolstered by key 22- and 15-yard runs by Jay "Jim Kiick" Hickey, while the latter scored after Harvard's second costly roughing-the-kicker penalty had given the Lions life on the Crimson 30-yard line...
...Crimson had once again proven themselves to be error-prone, and their defense, especially the weak side, was completely baffled by the runs of Jackson and Hickey, who racked up 179 and 125 yards, respectively. Despite its brilliant showing in the second quarter, and the fact that Mike Lynch converted all five extra-point attempts (there is a kicking game, after all), the offense was completely stifled in the final half...
...class of French society, portrayed here by Claude Chabrol with harrowing humor, and its overriding principle is that no shock waves are tolerated. Just Before Nightfall, an intelligent and wholly unsparing dark comedy, concerns an advertising executive named Charles (Michel Bouquet) who murders his mistress. Charles discovers-as did Hickey, under rather more intense circumstances in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh-that what is insupportable is the weight of pardon...
Even a reformed system, say cautious critics, should not be expected to do much more than punish and isolate offenders from society. "Whether or not prisoners will change is not the issue," says Joe Hickey. "To the extent that people see criminal-justice system as fair, to that extent will they have more respect for the law. We would be ahead if we could even