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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...
...called the Mets. They were also called the Amazin' Mets, because they did not play baseball very well. They were, as everyone knows, terrible. But the people of Flushing Meadow loved them; they loved the antics performed by the Amazin's and they loved their names: Marvelous Marv Throneberry, Hot Rod Kanehl, Choo Choo Coleman. The people went to Shea Stadium, where the Mets booted away their home games and waved banners that proclaimed LOSING ISN'T EVERYTHING-IT'S THE ONLY THING...
Marvelous Marv departed early in 1963, but the Mets' maladies lingered. The humor began to wear a little thin ?at least in the clubhouse. "It was no fun, no laughs at all," recalls Jones, who played in six games that year. "Imagine walking into a locker room before a game and hearing guys ask, 'Well, who's going to blow it for us today?' Or people referring to you as the Ringling Brothers Circus. I was too embarrassed to show my face in public." For those who groused about their station in life, Casey conjured a classic reply...