Word: icing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston this week for her first appearance in Eliot House's Jimmy Fund benefit, An Evening With Champions. Since she left her home in Helsinki, Finland three years ago to begin intensive training in Denver, Colo, Tintti, as her friends call her, has lived the life of an ice skating addict...
...took referees Wayne Humiel and Mel Tomalty, clipboards in hand, 15 minutes to stop the fracas and sort out the penalties--four minutes for hitting after the whistle to Colucci, and roughing minors to everyone else on the ice, with the exception of the two goaltenders...
With the teams three aside and open ice cheap, some persistent forechecking paid off for Harvard with just under six minutes...
When co-captain Boyd missed a drop pass, sophomore right winger Tom Murray pounced on the puck near center ice and pushed it up to Johnny Cochrane, who streaked down the right boards on a two-on-one break. Using Murray as a decoy, he wound up at the right face-off circle and lasered a shot along the ice past Harrison's stick side, triggering stunned silence among RPI followers and a mass celebration on the Harvard bench...
STALLONE'S DIRECTING is as bad as his screenplay. He overuses close-ups, slow motion and freeze shots in attempting to create the dramatic tension his shallow characters and uninteresting plot fail to provide. In one scene, Victor is delivering a large block of ice to someone who lives up a long flight of stairs: close-ups of Victor's sweating face, shots of the imposing staircase, shots of Victor climbing the stairs, and so on, until he finds the customer did not want any ice. What should be drama becomes unwitting comedy...