Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winthrop House came from behind to nip Daveaport, 8-6. After a scoreless first half, Yale blocked a Winthrop punt and ran it for a touchdown. Fullback Larry Hunter hit off tackle to tie it for the Crimson. Faking the same play, quarterback Dave Schraver threw to end Bill Reardon for the decisive two-point conversion...
Gails, trying to allude Jim Moses and Bob Panoff, ran all the way back to the 40, 22 yards behind the line. Hit hard, and nearly on his back, he winged an amazing pass to halfback, Bob Sokolowski in the end zone. Sokolowski was covered closely by two Crimson defenders, but he leapt high into the air and came down with the ball for an incredible catch...
...Secaucus, N.J., pig farmer who wanted to be President, in 1949 formed his own Poor Man's Party and got himself on the New Jersey ballot in 1952, 1956 and 1960, campaigning with a wiggling porker under his arm and the slogan "No piggy deals in Washington," also ran for other offices in other years, never polling many votes, but once, in 1954, being credited with taking enough ballots (his vote: 35,241) away from the Democrats to help give Republican Clifford Case his first U.S. Senate victory; of a heart attack; in Secaucus...
...story has been told on film before (The Petrified Forest, He Ran All the Way, Desperate Hours), but Polanski tells it in a manner cannily calculated to propagate tension. Tension is set up between Romanesque stones that soothe the eye and electronic jazz that grates the ear. Tension is set up in the script, which systematically intersperses-interfuses episodes of horror and hilarity. Tension is set up by the camera, which in frame after frame lets the danger lurk just out of sight until the onlooker feels like a man cooped up with a cobra he cannot...
...have to believe in something supernatural if you think you can make it starting from the top. Or maybe the Monkees just live right. Last January, a powerful television producer ran a classified advertisement in Variety magazine under the heading of "Madness." The advertisement announced that casting would begin the next month for a fall television show: "We are looking for four zany boys, between the ages of 18 and 26." In February, 438 bit actors tried out and, after extensive testing and interviewing, four were chosen. They never had sung professionally before last spring and still can't play...