Word: replays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most improbable bestseller of 1967 was Paper Lion, in which that professional amateur, George Plimpton, gave a Mittyesque account of his preseason tryout with the Detroit Lions' football team. Now comes an instant replay of Plimpton's adventure, presumably aimed at the millions of armchair quarterbacks who spend every Sunday afternoon in the fall glued to the pro games on TV. As a film, unfortunately, Paper Lion has all the interest of a five-yard penalty; it sadly lacks both the charm and sensitivity of the original...
...INSTANT REPLAY: THE GREEN BAY DIARY OF JERRY KRAMER. Edited by Dick Schaap. 286 pages. World...
Scared of Daddy. Kramer taped a diary last season, and Instant Replay is more or less the result. He shows that all was not beating and moaning in Lombardi's bedlam. "Tomorrow, I imagine, Coach Lombardi'll pat him on the head, rub his back, scratch his ears, and everybody'll feel a little better," he writes of one player. At other times, Coach leads his bulls in song. All very sincere, all very calculated. What makes the diary interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even...
...split over prime rates amounts to a replay of a 1967 battle between the same two banks. In January of that year, Chase cut its prime rate by a full ½% (to 5½%) and firmly held its ground despite outraged cries from other bankers and a counterpunch by Citibank, which reduced its rate only ¼%. Still, almost everybody finally fell in line with Chase-a victory that earned the bank considerable prestige for sound and shrewd judgment. As to why other banks failed to follow the lead again last week, Chase Vice President and Economist William Butler says: "They...
MARK RUDD'S sentences don't play back very well on the instant replay. He doesn't prepare what he is going to say in his speeches, and his mind seems to be listening to his own voice, forming its next ideas on the basis of what it hears. And he falls back on using a dogmatic-sounding language of generalization ("imperialism," "corporate expansion," "co-optation") that assume the listener already largely understands the things he is talking about...