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Chunks of Cement? The Legendary Champions also shows the lean, hard, 24-year-old Jack Dempsey winning the title from Willard in one of the most savage beatings ever inflicted on a fighter...
...ENDS: Ted Hendricks, Miami, 6 ft. 8 in., 222 Ibs.; and Bill Stanfill, Georgia, 6 ft. 6 in., 242 Ibs. On the field, Hendricks looks like a basketball player who accidentally put on the wrong uniform. Confident that he can easily pack another 25 or 30 Ibs. onto his lean frame, scouts predict the "Stork" will continue to "worry hell out of a backfield" with his long-arm way of deflecting passes, and snagging ballcarriers from behind. Stanfill is a relentless de fender who specializes in flattening quarterbacks. Nothing fancy about him, say the scouts, "just a big strong...
There is a lean, wry quality to Hammett's writing that is unique. There is nothing superfluous. In The Thin Man. Hammett describes the hosts of a dinner party that Nick Charles reluctantly goes...
...their historian to relate is told in few and simple words. It is well that Director Carol Reed (The Third Man) has strayed from the far less successful Broadway version, which was stunted by stage boundaries and hampered by overplayers. Instead he has gone to a richer predecessor: David Lean's virtuous 1948 adaptation, memorable for its palpable atmosphere of terror and decorum. After a season of watching inane twitching in the name of dance, the viewer is most happily greeted by Onna White's choreography, an exuberant step-by-step exploration of Victorian zeal...
...power, visionary Demasiado goes on scheming for American (or Russian) money to build a dream capital in the jungles of his country. Aspinwall goes on fighting to prove that honesty, if not justice, will prevail in political affairs. As the author records in lean, reportorial prose, in any struggle to salvage both dignity and power from such a situation, the winner takes nothing. Well, almost nothing...