Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicholas is a pick-up team in the best sense of the word. The squad consists mostly of ex-Ivy League players who hold regular jobs, but like to keep in shape in their spare time. The mainstay of the team is Peter Bostwick, who is their coach, captain and plays center on the first line...
...book by Francis Lacassin (excerpted in Film Quarterly, Fall, '72) shows how comics contributed many of the elements of film syntax which the sequence has now adopted. Subtle choices of angle of view, depth of field, movements within the composition of each frame, use of the "subjective camera" to pick out important details-all these make up a language which comic strips were using before the development of motion pictures. That film continues to borrow and share these elements is indicated by directors liked Alfred Hitchcock, who sketches out every shot of his films in cartoon style before shooting begins...
...lilting wordplay, the vitality of its episodes, the accessibility of its meaning, sentiments and broad comedy, Donald Newlove's second novel can be quite demanding. After finishing the last page, the reader may feel bound to answer a difficult question: Would he pick up hitchhiking 30-year-old Siamese twins, drenched and not too sober, carrying a trumpet, a trombone, a suitcase, a bag containing laundry and a bust of Ludwig van Beethoven...
...gave the two poorest teams in the league two first round draft picks. What were the teams and which players did they pick...