Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working with a theme that has been sucked dry by better men than he. But Cassavetes is desperate. This is about Faces after all, so he keeps flashing close-ups of faces on the screen, quickly, back and forth. Sure, it is shocking. The same as seeing an oversize knee jerking out at you. Cassavetes has discovered something about film: you can make it look bigger than real life...
...exactly a knee slapper and almost seemed to be unintentional. But given the context-the solemnity of the East Room of the White House and Richard Nixon's first press conference as President-the throwaway line was bound to elicit laughter. One of the first things he had done to cut down on crime in the capital, deadpanned the President, was to turn on the White House lights that Lyndon Johnson had turned off five years...
...fact the first time in the 34-year history of the pro draft that two players from the lowly Ivy League were snapped up in the first round. Save for All-America Quarterback Terry Hanratty of Notre Dame, who was bypassed (presumably because of his injured knee) and later picked up in the second round by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the rest of the midwinter harvest was predictable...
...Mary and John? The ad announcing the new production says it in ideographs: Rosemary's baby carriage perched atop Mrs. Robinson's knee. Mia Farrow, 23, and Dustin Hoffman, 31. The wandering waif and the victim of the middle class. Mrs. Sinatra and Mr. Acne. Novelist Flannery O'Connor put it another way: "Everything that rises must converge." The casting together of the two fastest-rising performers in the business was inevitable?it always is. But it once took half a career to manage the box-office mergers of Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn...
...Wilson for top laurels in the two-mile. Wilson likes to set a fast, steady pace, and the meet record of 9:06.6 should fall. Doug Hardin, who set the record last year, will be competing again after a three-month layoff. Hardin has been hobbled by knee and calf injuries and will probably run cautiously...