Word: jinx
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Viva Maria! looks like a Hollywood comic western, the sort the studios describe as "rollicking round-ups," or "madcap hi-jinx with the men who made the West." This means a screen as wide as the Oregon Trail, technically superb Technicolor, expensive cranes to boost its enormous cameras anywhere they want to go, and in general everything that the little men with the big checks...
Yale's hockey team dismembered Harvard, 3-5 at New Haven Saturday, ending a seven-year jinx and killing the Crimson's chance for an invitation to the ECAC tourney...
...read and thoroughly enjoyed your article on Mr. Football, Jim Brown. One thing does worry me though. If the famous TIME "jinx" holds true, my favorite football player will either sustain a serious injury in the near future or will be the "goat" in the N.F.L. championship game. If any of these things do come to pass, consider my subscription canceled...
...pack of bumbling criminals, moviegoers whose memories reach back a decade or so are apt to grow nostalgic and inquire rhetorically: Guinness, anyone? Rotten invites comparison to Sir Alec's memorable extralegal capers in The Man in the White Suit and The Lavender Hill Mob, but its low-jinx omits such essentials as wit, slyness and style...
Despite this array of talent, Pappas is the only Oriole starter who is a sure thing to have a good season. Roberts and Haddix are getting old. Barber will have to show that he can regain his 1963 form. Bunker will be confronting the sophomore jinx, and had an unimpressive spring training...