Word: passed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, November 20 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).*Hugh O'Brian plays a pro football quarterback sidelined by injuries in David Mark's "A Punt, a Pass and a Prayer...
...varied as Author Asinof's fans; the list reads like a city ward-heeler's notion of the perfect political ticket. The coach is a Brooklyn Jew. The quarterback is a WASP-a Pentecostal minister's son from the Deep South. And the star pass receiver is a Negro. But whatever their differences, the Giants have one thing in common: an unpredictable flair for the dramatic...
...script beneath the pictures reads like one of John Lennon's semiliterate Joycean pastiches. Flabby punjabs pass for wit ("Are you bluish? You don't look bluish"), and the boys' voyage is filled with stilted symbolism. In one scene, the quartet passes by the Sea of Phrenology, where huge heads of Moses, Cicero, Freud and Einstein loom; John recalls that a fellow named Ulysses also went on a journey. Ultimately, however, what is wrong with the film is the Beatles. They are not in it. Except for the songs and a final sequence in which they appear...
...athlete-but his performance conveys little of the book's vicarious terrors. The film depends for its humor on a sequence of listless sight gags: Alda sprawling on his face during calisthenics; Alda jamming his fingers on the snap from the center; Alda lobbing a wobbly pass into a conveniently placed waterbucket...
Harvard's lone score came on a high, looping kick by wing Ahmed Yehia late in the third period. Taking a pass from Jaime Vargas, Yehia arched a soft shot into the nets just beyond the Cadet goalie's reach...