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...retired College Publicist Jones Ramsey's familiar line, "There're only two sports in Texas--football and spring football." Former University of Texas Basketball Coach Abe Lemons laments, "You can lay a football down in a parking lot and draw a crowd," but college jump shooters have been a rougher sell in the Lone Star State. Historically, pro basketball has been no bonanza either. One night in 1973, the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association counted 130 paying customers and moved to San Antonio...
...Newton native faces a quicker and rougher collegiate game, but he has the size, the background, and the attitude to adjust...
Adams, meanwhile, had a far rougher time on offense. The Flames-who failed to earn a first down all day long--gained more yards on two Cabot-North defensive penalties than they gained offensively...
Grouch, you say? Old crank? On the contrary, sympathy is due the vacuum- cleaner man. The world, and especially this country, has become a hard place for those not yet committed to the overhaul of the flesh, heart and lungs--and none of these were in a rougher spot last week than Skoko...
That will sound like gentle facetiousness to anyone who does not realize that Spielberg's movie productions are his children too. He can be criticized for photocopying the boy-meets-his-better-self wonder of E.T. in his more recent films; the copy is rougher and darker in the comic nightmare Gremlins, a bit crumpled and smudged in the fun-house frenzy of The Goonies. But the films' very limitations are identity badges on a body of work as personal, even as obsessive, as that of Ingmar Bergman, David Lean or any other monarch of cinema academe. Spielberg the director...