Word: manne
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...Harvard defense picked up its share of the slack, tightening the noose around the Dartmouth offense. Even though Big Green quarterback Brian Mann had had a career first half by completing 22-for-29 passes (15-of-16 in the first quarter), the Crimson secondary and the defensive line suffocated the dynamic Dartmouth offense...
...Mann went 0-for-7 in the second half...
Here's how art imitates life. It's the spring of last year, and Mike Wallace--immemorial TV journalist, much honored anchor of 60 Minutes--is on the phone to film director Michael Mann. Mann is making a movie about one of the less exalted episodes in Wallace's career, the time four years ago when 60 Minutes suppressed its story on Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco-industry whistle blower. Mann's film moves on two tracks. One is the anguished dealings between Wigand and Lowell Bergman, a 60 Minutes producer who is leash holder and hand holder for the tormented...
Wallace had persuaded Mann to let him see an early version of the screenplay. Now he has called to ask for factual corrections and other changes in scenes that make him look vainglorious or blind to journalistic ethics. "His language is very acute," recalls Mann. "Stunningly funny and smart and ironic. He gave this long speech. I told him I'd have to use it in the film!" Which Mann did. It became an onscreen outburst that Wallace delivers sarcastically to Bergman, his once devoted younger colleague: "Oh, how fortunate I am to have Lowell Bergman's moral tutelage...
Starting quarterback Brian Mann has thrown 10 interceptions and only two touchdowns all season. Tailback Reggie Belhomme is averaging a paltry 2.9 yards per carry. And Mann has yet to complete a touchdown pass to a wide receiver this season...