Word: playing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While lines like "Men aren't all bad, just 92 per cent bad" ring hollow, worshippers of Texan jargon strike oil in Whorehouse. But you can find choicer idioms in the glorious novels of Peter Gent and Dan Jenkins. Those novels aren't pretentious; this play is. It strains to hard to mock every Texan myth that the effect is laughable, more than laudable. So see it and laugh--after all, John Connally may be the next president. And John Tower reportedly liked it. Hot damn...
After contracting for the rights to Phillip Stephens' play "Van Gogh" four years ago, Nimoy wrote "Vincent," researching it by travelling extensively through France to the cities, homes, prison and mental hospital where Van Gogh painted his vivid works...
...Ivies at this juncture, it is that Penn and Columbia will wind up near the bottom of the heap. The Lions edged the Quakers, 12-7, in an uninspired matchup. Penn recorded only a seven-yard touchdown by fullback Jim Mullowney in becoming the first college football team to play 1000 games...
Martin had entered the game just minutes earlier, replacing Annie MacMillan, who started at centerforward. Coach Edie MacAusland moved MacMillan, normally a back, to the front line to inject some hard-nosed play around...
Smerczynski showed remarkable poise and control. But he had no variety in his plays--because he hardly had practiced with the offense. Running Connors or Callinan to the right play after play just would not move the offense...