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...hallowed ground between the 30 and 40-yard lines from which kickers booted a majority of their field goals last year will become a pit for trench warfare next season. Outside the 30-yard line, in third-and-short and fourth down situations, the interior line will fight it out not only for the first-down yardage, but also for every foot to reduce field goal distance. The three-pointer, in its virtual obsolescence, may become as precious as a touchdown...
...Charles, with the handsome fronts of stately residences facing the river." The common needed "a fine fountain." And even Harvard could help, with an art museum to be placed in the Yard, "along the great green terrace, between the President's house and Gore Hall," where the Pusey pit...
Stand Up and Cheer (1934). Shirley Temple, a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations, sings and dances her way into the pit of our stomach. Ch. 27, 4 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...
...entire inside of the respectable Broadway Theater has been gutted and rebuilt along the lines of an amusement park fun house-ten different playing areas scattered throughout, with running ramps, movable drawbridges, balconies. In the midst of the chaos, spectators are arrayed in bleachers or on stools in the pit. Such environmental gimmickry can be hazardous...
Still, the real show may be behind the scenes. Any performance of Les Troyens is a miracle of calibration. In the pit, Conductor Rafael Kubelik uses everything but radar to maintain contact with seven assistant conductors. They are backstage with walkie-talkies to communicate with each other as they herd bands and choruses around the platforms, often walking in the opposite direction from the motion of the turntable. When film sequences start to roll, Kubelik's tempos must not vary by more than four seconds from performance to performance...