Word: players
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During down time on his movie sets, for example, he was an inveterate chess player. At home he read Western history and gathered one of the world's finest collections of Hopi Indian kachina dolls. If his right-wing beliefs emblemized a rugged individualism, he also had a reputation among movie people as a fiercely loyal colleague quick to aid old comrades and as an affectionate if hard-kidding coworker...
...between Allen and his friend (Michael Murphy) in the classroom (executed by the shot-counter-shot editing principle)clearly illustrates how an inanimate object (skeleton) can be inventively included within the stationary shot composition, creating irrepressibly humorous reverberations, which are both complementary to the dialogue and contrapuntal to the player's facial expression...
Unseeded, the young player has arrived at the Wimbledon finals, where he faces Guillermo Vilas. Something is wrong, however. The camera keeps cutting to the empty chair next to his coach (Pancho Gonzalez, playing himself and, very nicely too). Obviously someone terribly important in the kid's life is missing, and Vilas blows him out in the first two sets. How the lad (Dean-Paul Martin) got to Wimbledon, and the reason for his sudden loss of poise, is told in a series of flashbacks intercut with the unfolding drama of the big match...
...Harvard women's soccer team caps a magnificent season by toppling Brown, 3-0, to capture the Ivy League championship. Julie Brynteson scores the hat trick and garners the tournament's Most Valuable Player honors...
Richmond's victory made her the first Radcliffe state singles champion ever, and her emergence the next week as New England's number one collegiate female tennis player marked another distinction in Harvard tennis history...