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Owens gets the ball deep in the backfield, and the idea, he says, "is to get to the line quick. You go pitter-patter-in' up there and they'll be waiting for you with a smile. Then pow! And the lights go out." They rarely go out for Owens, even though he operates in heavy traffic-from tackle to tackle. There have been times, however, when his savage, slashing style-quick start, high knee action, body leaning forward -proved embarrassing. More than once, he has burst through into the secondary, only to have his own momentum carry...
...work." Everything else is there too-the whiplash body English and frenetic tap routines, the hard-times songs about riches-to-rags and good-times-acomin', the Spanish-town song ("Do you remember those nights of splendor"), the train song ("Clickity-clackity-woo-woo") and the rain song ("Pitter-patter-what's-the-matter...
...Singewald must be one of those 60-year old Cliffies who pitter into an English history course two minutes late while the professor indulgently holds up his lecture. Somehow the boys at Kirkland House talked this nice old lady into assuming the title role of The Madwoman of Chaillot, a despicable effort to save some money in make-up and costumes...
...other semifinal. It was a natural: height v. speed, strength v. finesse. Controlling the boards, feeding the ball to Cazzie Russell, the Wolverines jumped into a seven-point lead. U.C.L.A.'s answer was a full-court press, and the sound from then on was the pitter-patter of quick feet. Six times Michigan lost the ball just trying to get it in bounds. At halftime, the Scoreboard read U.C.L.A. 47, Michigan 34. Then the smallest Bruin of them all took charge...
...certain air of dispassionateness, thanks to its anthology form; we are to hear Khrushchev speak for himself. At the same time the commentary maintains an impression of scholarly research by expropriating recently published charts and opinions; it even feigns moderation by slipping from time to time into the academic pitter-patter of Harvard's own Russian Research Center. But let there be no mistake; in its heart of hearts Conquest Without War is a polemicist's handbook, motivated by the kind of simple-minded hatred that gave John Birch his distinctive charm and abandon...