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While the number of Harvard football greats who have gone on to play in the pros can be counted on one hand, Szaro made it into that elite circle and joined the New Orleans Saints in 1975. Szaro played for three seasons and in 1977 led the NFL in field-goal percentage...
Armistead said last week that he was not present at the meeting where those decisions were made. "For a long time, my personal statement on rent control has been that I don't get into the pros and cons," he said...
...wanted to tug on your coat for a minute. They wanted to explain things, to explain how it was to be so much in love that it was "driving you into a sorry person." They were yahoos and warriors, gigglers and killers, they were pilots and brain-damaged tennis pros. If they were funny--and they usually were--they were also noble as the last minutes of desperation dragged on and on. They were hopeless and deranged, but somehow against all the odds they retained this ridiculous faith. And though capable of extraordinary cruelty, they remained in Hannah's eyes...
...that Botticelli would have admired helps a great deal, and after an hour at the makeup table Clotilde has drawn one on herself, cooked her long brown hair in curlers and As Photographer Watanabe shoots Polaroid stills to test the light and color, Clotilde waits. Like all the real pros, she is good at waiting. She daydreams of Paris, where she keeps an apartment. She sees herself doing the spring collections, "and Yves St. Laurent himself is tying my ribbon, and I'm going down the runway, and every reporter in the world is watching, and it's total magic...
...hooker, and a Black deaf-mute muscleman named Swallow. When this troupe rolls into Pirhanhas they become the way out for an idealistic, accordion-playing farmboy. Cico (Fabio Junior), who fears an existence rooted in the sleepy backlands and joins the outfit with his pregnant young wife. The old pros and the innocents rattle together from one poor village to the next hawking the worldly pleasures of vaudeville to a public more likely to pay admission in melons than in cash...