Word: raying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premise--British actors performing a campy American Western--ceases to be funny about thirty seconds into the first act. The feeble gags swarm around such familiar territories as the human anatomy, drunks, queers, and race (Authors Ray Galton and Alan Simpson even succumb to having a whiteman tell an Indian, "You all look alike to me.") As you might expect, the script is littered with countless unfunny versions of Western cliches (e.g., "Seldom have I heard so many discouraging words...
...good hands to go with his redoubtable frame (6'2", 245 lbs.) moves to end, where he will start. However, Varney's departure and Szaro's injury--a sprained ankle suffered only three days into the practice season--leave Harvard with only two outstanding halfbacks, Captain Vic Gatto and Ray Hornblower, where they once had four. The injury to Szaro, a football player considered to have as great a potential as anyone who ever entered Harvard, is especially grievous. The Polish immigrant and erstwhile soccer player, according to Yovicsin, has a great deal still to learn about the game...
...window perch in the rooming house. Stephens told authorities that seconds after the shots rang out he had seen a stranger hurrying down the stairs from the second floor, carrying a package that presumably concealed the murder weapon. Days later, he identified the man from photos as James Earl Ray, who was eventually seized in England and charged with King's murder...
...Claiming that his activities outside the jail jeopardized his own safety, the state invoked a Tennessee law that provides for confinement of material witnesses, and imprisoned Stephens in July. In setting bail of $10,000, the Memphis Criminal Court virtually assured that he would be safely tucked away until Ray's scheduled trial in November (see PRESS...
...protecting him from himself. They are necessary. Fame has brought Denny fortune?and constant problems. At home, the phone is forever ringing with calls from people pleading with him to visit their store, appear at their nightclub, endorse their product. On the road, Denny's current roommate, Shortstop Ray Oyler, has taken to answering the phone: "Mr. McLain's office." Denny is already scheduled for post-season appearances, playing the organ on the Ed Sullivan Show and at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Capitol is preparing a record album by the Denny McLain Quintet, with Denny playing such standards...