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...bone. Drunk sports fans screamed unintelligible epithets in our ears and yes, the UCLA band was settling down directly in front of us. The despair creeping into my facial expression was painfully obvious, reflected in the tubas that lined the row before us. The game itself was a complete mismatch, Alabama winning by a score...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Grid Classic At Liberty Bowl Invites Unexpected Turnover | 1/11/1977 | See Source »

...Those guys are so damned good," McCurdy said, "that they ran all the way to Boston, came back, and won anyway. It was sort of a mismatch...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Harriers Kick Off With Loss, No Decision | 9/29/1976 | See Source »

...into the TV screen. He and Reagan had little to say to each other; there was not a great deal more familiarity between the two men than when Schweiker's name was first proposed and Reagan did not even know who he was. It had been a ruinous mismatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALSO-RANS: The End of the Ride | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...Line. John V. Lindsay was not so fortunate. He not only won first prize in 1965 (four years as mayor) but, as things turned out, second prize (four more years). Because of Lindsay's self-evident weariness, this battle of the books between old antagonists is a decided mismatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rivals | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

Mert and Phil is a jarring mismatch between the drama of oppressive realism and the theater of the absurd. It is scabrous in word and action. Some of it is quite funny; some of it is extremely sad. It possesses a barbed honesty that obviously unsettled some of the playgoers who hissed and booed it on opening night, as well as several of the critics. Declaring a personal auto-da-fe WNEW-TV's usually commonsensical critic Stewart Klein declared that he wished to burn Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater and Director-Producer Joseph Papp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Tweaking Raw Nerves | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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