Word: marv
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slight cynic whom Pacino makes astonishingly convincing until he loses interest towards the end. Pacino speaks measuredly and quietly, with sudden intervals of rage and continual flashes of humor, and when he talks of descanting on his own deformity or wonders at the blindness that finds him a marv'llous proper man, he means what he says. In even his blackest lies, we sense some sincerity, as though he has indeed determined to prove a villain reluetantly, after sounding his own nature and discovering that he cannot prove a lover...
...Endzone snap out of his 40 per cent completion average blues? Did Teen Angel have a chance when he went back for his girl's high school ring? PRINCETON-BROWN -- I went to school with Princeton's fullback, Romerio Perkins. He used to fumble the way Marv Throneberry dropped pick-off throws to first, Now he plays in the worst Princeton backfield since the days of the Flying Wedge, and on a Princeton team with an excellent chance to lose to Brown for the first time in 18 years. The New York Times won't be double teaming this...
...TACKLES. Marv Montgomery, Southern California, 6 ft. 6 in., 259 lbs.; and Dan Dierdorf, Michigan. 6 ft. 4 in., 243 lbs. Like U.S.C.'s previous All-America tackles, Sid Smith and Ron Yary, Montgomery is a quick giant who is at his aggressive best when bowling over downfield defenders. There is little chance of avoiding him: a junior college hurdle champion and a high jumper who has cleared 6 ft. 6 in., he is literally all over the field. Whenever Michigan needed crucial rushing yardage this season, Dierdorf was the man called upon to blast open the hole...