Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith was out, and the change in signal-calling may have thrown the timing off in the line and affected the team's offensive unity. Harvard also may have made a mistake in trying to grind out yardage against a proven defense, using two sabpar backs. Third, Harvard's lack of imagination made it easy for the Indians to dope out the Crimson attack...
...return next Saturday will help the first problem. The second is something Harvard has had to live with since September, and now that fullback Gus Crim is sidelined for the season with an injured kidney, will have to adjust to for the remainder of the fall. But the lack of imagination has bothered Harvard's offense all fall, and unless coach John Yovicsin allows his quarterbacks to open up the Crimson attack, there is little chance that the offense will carry its share of the burden...
...where Rembrandt and Velasquez once reigned in hushed glory, and costumes ranging from fringed buckskin to China Machado chic. "Peace Now" buttons blossomed on satin evening gowns. Pamphlets denouncing David Rockefeller, Viet Nam and the art market were dispensed along with cocktails and tiny sandwiches. Outside, pickets protested the lack of black and women artists in the show. Manhattan's venerable Metropolitan Museum had never before been host to anything quite like it, a fact that was duly lamented by diehard traditionalists. The occasion? The Met's 100th birthday. With the opening last week of its first centennial...
Paint Your Wagon has the same composer (Frederick Loewe) and lyricist (Alan Jay Lerner) as Camelot. It also exhibits the same lack of knack. Again there are broad performances more appropriate to marionettes than men. Again there is the literal representation of lyrics, as when the camera shows pines waving to illustrate the haunting song. They Call the Wind Maria. And again there is a backward alchemy, turning folklore into exaggeration...
...Battle of Britain is one of those inane, stiff-upper-lip war flicks that attempt to make up with historical accuracy what they lack in dramatic impact. There are lots of old airplanes, Spitfires, Messerschmitts and the like, and a couple of spectacular dogfights. At film's end, there is even a list of the dead and wounded on both sides, flashed onscreen like a kind of post-game scoreboard. Additionally, an all-star cast is recruited to man the planes and give some faint semblance of life to the statistics. This presents its own problems, however: once they...