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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The script, written by Karl Tunberg, and touched up by S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal and Christopher Fry, is well ordered, and its lines sometimes sing with good rhetoric and quiet poetry. The actors, for the most part, play in the grand manner, but with controlled firmness. Actor Boyd carries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 30, 1959 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Griffith provides some skillful comic relief as a sheik who is crazy over horses. But what matters most and comes off best in the picture is the great scenes of spectacle, particularly the chariot race, a superbly handled crescendo of violence that ranks as one of the finest action sequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 30, 1959 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Rugged Red-Dogging. Sunday after Sunday, pro quarterbacks have learned that whatever play they call, Huff is likely to be in front of it. Sam Huff is strong enough to flatten a plunging fullback such as the Chicago Bears' Rick Casares (6 ft. 2½ in., 225 Ibs.), swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Behind Landry's complex system of blitzing linebackers and slanting linemen is a single master principle: funnel the play to the inside so that Sam Huff can make the tackle. Says the Los Angeles Rams' Line Coach Don Paul: "We hold a special meeting to plan how we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Off the field, Sam Huff is an unassuming extravert with a reputation as a waitress kidder, a dislike for liquor (two beers make him woozy), and a quiet determination to get to bed around 10 every night. But the game has left more of a mark on him than the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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