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...announcer for the Los Angeles Rams) excitedly describing the play: "The blitz is on. . .a pass to the fullback, screen over the middle. . .twenty-five yards," or perhaps "screen left. . .cornerback. . .great play! . . .makes the tackle. No gain!" Crowd cheers provide an appropriate background. The players move a yard-marker on a miniature gridiron according to the announced result, and another play is chosen. There are special records for punts, fumbles, interceptions and the like, a small scoreboard and even miniature goal posts...
...Tooth of Crime, is basically about. Currently having its U.S. première at the McWhirter Theater in Princeton, N.J., it features a hero named Hoss (Frank Langella), who is a rock star. He is also a kind of robber baron of the Western freeways. He is a "marker" who scores "kills" and controls cities as fiefs. Hoss also works within a system, never deviating from "the Code." His territory is allotted to him by unseen "keepers" who seem to be a cross between Mafia godfathers and Soviet commissars. Hoss has his entourage: a doctor (John Scanlan) who gives...
...play it by ear." Munro said yesterday. If Osode gives the Harvard defense problems, he said. Ric Lacivita, normally a fullback but with previous experience as a one-on-one marker, will move to halfback to contain Osode. Either Lawson Wulsin or Steve Mead will fill in at fullback...
Keefe also started to come after the mile marker, but Campbell remained for back. At the three mile marker, Quirk began to fade and Northeastern's Rowe and Flanders pulled up in front of him. Then Campbell, who had unobtrusively begun to move up, passed Flanders and moved into third...
Each one consists of a sand-filled, depressed area with a signpost in the center to serve both as marker and target. On opening day, dog owners and dogs lined up to use the inaugural facility in Serzedelo Corréa Plaza, but the first sampler was a three-year-old boy who wriggled away from his mother and hit the post perfectly. Said his embarrassed mother: "He has always been somewhat mischievous." As for the dogs, most of them went about their business as usual...