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...Elis led all NCAA Division I-A teams in total defense (175.4 yards per game) and rushing defense (75 Yards per game). Returnees include middle guard kevin Czinger, who blocked two punts in the 13-12 squeaker over Brown, end Fred Leone and standout monster back Dave Novosel, who has a tendency to turn up wherever the ball...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Six Have Shot at Ivy Crown | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...horror has traditionally brought kids through adolescence with reduced turmoil, providing them with a safe, acceptable outlet for their anti-social urges. The stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...without much cinematic grace, but the artlessness serves the subject and showcases three splendid performances: Blythe Banner as the willowy, resilient Lillian Meechum; Michael O'Keefe as 18-year-old Ben, his father's cross and joy; and, above all, Robert Duvall as the raging Bull-sacred monster, gung-ho dinosaur, one-man nuclear-family holocaust-who can do everything except express what he feels for the people he loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pugno Vinco | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

STRATFORD, Conn.--Among Shakespeare's plays, Richard III ranks second only to Hamlet in the total number of lines, in the size of the title role, and in its appeal to actors and producers over the centuries. The bloody monster who murdered his way to the throne (a notoriously inaccurate historical portrait) has over the years engaged the talents of several women, boys in their early teens, and even little Ellen Bateman, who began acting the role professionally when she was four...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Bard | 8/12/1980 | See Source »

Well, when Jimmy Arias was nine and 10 we knew he was good, the class of his crop of little monsters, but he was still just that, a little monster. One tyke who had the misfortune to face Arias several times in those early days told me over a tennis camp lunch once, "He's great. He's the best. He's also an asshole, and I bet he gets screwed...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Next Great Net Star | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

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