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Right at the outset, a veteran charter fisherman, Nichol Dance (Warren Gates), threatens to kill his upstart competitor Tom Skelton (Peter Fonda). The remainder of 92 in the Shade is spent waiting for this inauspicious event to occur. Neither Dance nor Skelton pays any mind to fate or fortune, an attitude that makes for short suspense. This did not matter quite so much in Thomas McGuane's novel, which went heavy on atmosphere, but it pretty thoroughly confounds any movie adaptation, including, sad to say, the author...
Winger Danny Dilorati skimmed the crossbar on a breakaway at the outset of the final stanza as the Crimson barraged the goal mouth but failed to capitalize...
...Heyer's twenty-odd books there is basically only one plot. The hero and the heroine, thrown together by chance at the outset, almost invaribly take an instant dislike to one another. Heyer's protagonists are all well-born and haughty, and nearly all are extremely strong-willed. Presented as fairly intelligent and mature, they would never do anything so bland and conventional as to fall in love at first sight--it usually takes 150 pages...
...Eagles' arsenal features a frontline of home-grown talent labeled "the Boston three," composed of 6'6" leading scorer Carrington, Bill Collins, and Morrison. Despite its national ranking at the outset of the season in Sports Illustrated, B.C. has felled only two first-division teams in the course of the campaign, as its big time illusions have gone poof. B.C.'s fastbreak has been marred by sloppy ballhandling and the one-guard offense has yet to jell. After its most recent loss, an 88-70 drubbing by Villanova, one basketball pundit quipped, "B.C. opened a bakery to sell turnovers...
...From the outset News Reporter Douglas Glazier, a police-beat veteran, sensed the possibility of a railroading. The nomadic bikers had been picked up elsewhere on another offense; they were convicted of the Albuquerque murder after a motel maid fingered them and testified she had been raped, tortured with a hot knife and made to watch the killing. Glazier rounded up gasoline credit-card receipts backing the bikers' claim that they had not been in Albuquerque at the time. Then a former policeman admitted to Glazier that the maid had told him she had lied. News Reporter Stephen Cain...