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...best team effort of the season," Hunt said. "We want to show some people that we can run. We are ready to shock some of these big jock schools," he added...
Kopple began to make her film about the Miners for Democracy, the UMWA reform factiion that sprang up after the murder of Jock Yablonski in 1969. Instead, she found herself focusing on Harlan County and the test fight the union was waging there against Duke Power. She moved among the miners, lived with them, eventually got herself beaten up with them. But all the time her camera was rolling, and Kopple has captured incredible scenes on film. Here is Basil...
...greatly increased funding, the efficient administration of 60 Boylston, and, perhaps most importantly, an active campaign by the admissions office to recruit and admit talented women athletes, the country club swimmer or girl's school hockey player has given way to the achievement oriented athlete--the female jock...
...reason for their locutions is as simple as the speakers: minor-league jocks laboring in a sport that has never been noted for attracting gentlemen?professional hockey. The Charlestown Chiefs represent one of those old, grimily industrialized middle-size Northeastern cities, the kind of place most viewers hear about only when it loses a defense contract. In a desperate attempt to turn his losers into winners, the coach (Paul Newman) converts the team from skaters into brawlers?tank-town versions of the old, notorious Philadelphia Flyers. His tactics are as low as the team's skills in language arts...
...first half centers on Mike Katz, a former New York Jet and amateur bodybuilder. Katz says he always felt a need to "prove myself" and be feared on the football field. As with Schwarzenegger's sexual pleasures, director George Butler loses another opportunity for deeper analysis. An aging jock, with puka beads, a double-knit leisure suit and the hair from the back of his head combed over his balding pate, Katz comes across as an archetypal bodybuilder...