Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Hawks' resurgence lies with three veteran forwards known to all Chicago as the Pappy Line: Left Wing Ted Lindsay, 33, Center Tod Sloan, 31, and Right Wing Eddie Litzenberger, 26. With a total of 69 goals, 94 assists, the Pappy Line is far and away the highest-scoring line in the league...
This season the Black Hawks started off in their usual fashion-miserably. As center on the first line, young (20) Bobby Hull proved too fast for Lindsay and Litzenberger and wore them out. Coach Rudy Pilous decided something had to be done. He put Sloan at center, and the Black Hawks promptly performed the prodigious feat of walloping the league-leading Montreal Canadiens on their home ice. They have lost only 17 of 47 games since...
...fouled up." Lindsay's aggressive play (he is the most penalized player in the league) and Sloan's playmaking brought Litzenberger to life. At week's end he was within four points of leading the league in individual scoring. Pilous figures his Pappy Line is still young enough to stay together two or three more years, and the Pappies themselves shrug off advancing age. Growls Elder Statesman Lindsay: "Old? Like hell...
...leave her? How can she live without him? At last the phone rings. She swoops it up-wrong number. Then it rings again-it is he. She answers gaily, full of chatter, only to be crushed by the news that he is about to marry. "This is the last line that still connects me to us," she sobs. But he is unmoved. After 45 shattering minutes, she hangs up, crying, "I love you, I love you, I love...
Composer Poulenc produced a clean, clear score for a small orchestra that avoided sonoric effects, used no percussion instruments. He dramatized the woman's breathless silences, when her man speaks at the other end of the line, by surrounding them with tautly suspenseful music. Instead of using leitmotifs to represent love, abandonment, jealousy, he wrote separate sequences for each of the woman's pathetic appeals-her story of a suicide attempt, her memories of a trip, the pet dog that misses its master. Said Poulenc: "I tried to give the music an erotic flavor to show that...