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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After that, it was garbage time as Columbia had deciphered Ford's strategy of dropping the ball into the wing area, going heavily to Mauro Keller-Sarmiento despite heavy Lion coverage. The Lions employed a time-killing strategy of long passes, giving McElaney an opportunity to practice his booming punch...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Booters Sink in New York Slime, 3-1 | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

Faculty officials set out budgetary goals each year for every division, department and office under their bailwick. During the year they keep their fingers crossed, and at its end, they punch all their figures into their computer and hope the money that came in will end up somewhere near the money they spent...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Red and the Black | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...simple sitcom premise with a wide variety of well-drawn (and exceptionally well cast) characters, sophisticated jokes and astute social observations. The first episode, which may be a classic of its kind, also manages to work in unforced slapstick gags, a touch of pathos and a double-whammy final punch line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: II | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...Moocher, Mike and Ciro, all potentially bland stereotypes, are well-cast and well-acted. Moocher, short but solid, is one of those kids who's never really going to go anywhere, but he has one of the film's great moments--when an employer tells him, "Be sure and punch the time clock, Shorty," he does, literally, and with style. Mike, played by Dennis Quade, is a pretty standard version of the hot-rodding, tough former quarterback--you last saw him in American Graffiti--but in Breaking Away he's more vulnerable, and more honest. Ciro, the clown with...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: The Best Movie on Wheels | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...faced with an entire volume of such curiously written items? You might ask what Martin or anyone else finds funny about them. There's a flat-footed doggedness to the way Martin takes tired jokes and tries to recycle them. Unfortunately, he has lost the ability to write a punch-line, and in Cruel Shoes he frequently gets around that simply by reprinting the title of the piece at the end--but this time, in italics. Witness "The Children Called Him Big Nose...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cruelty to Animals | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

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