Word: lineup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television light," meaning that the frame is burned with bright light so that everything will show up clearly on the home screen. In a theater, where the image is much larger, such a misconceived technique makes the actors look as if they were being paraded through a police lineup. Scenarist Don Carpenter has provided some pretty good redneck dialogue, and there is a well-observed performance by Michael C. Gwynne as Maury's tense, troll-like manager, who looks as if he regarded the daylight hours as a direct threat to his health...
...constantly, ebulliently inventive, whether in the scrupulously outrageous dialogue ("I expected the place to be crawling with cops, like maggots in a Camembert") or in one of the many dazzling visual jokes, like a group of Italian priests squirming through the humiliation of a police lineup...
With the meet out of Cornell's reach, head coach Don Gambril began juggling his lineup in an effort to provide the bored crowd with some close races, but to no avail. Dave Brumwell moved to the 200-yd. back and won easily, Mike Cook swam a good 500-yd. free but lost, while Phil Jonkheer and Dave Smith scored an easy 1-2 sweep in the 200-yd. breaststroke. English took another second in the 3-meter dive, and Harvard won easily in the free relay...
...Brown's sophomore stars, Eddie Morris, a flashy guard, and Lloyd Desizgne were on the bench for a large part of the second half. Morris played only 30 minutes and Desizgne 29. Brown did not really have much depth; they suffered with their sophomore starters out of the lineup...
...have to count on Campbell getting at least a first and a second and swimming a leg on a relay, and Haydon for two firsts," Gambril said, "so we'll just have to put up our strongest lineup, and try to out-guess them...