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Columbia's secondary will rotate to the strong side, using a monster back who will rove and free-lance at will...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Gridders Confront Columbia Today in New York | 10/14/1972 | See Source »

...Vendors rove up and down the center aisle, shouting, "Hey, Get your hot dogs here." Students near the aisle grow increasingly annoyed that much of their time is spent passing food and money. Next time they'll pick up their tickets earlier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAMESMANSHIP | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

Antiterra's "current events" rove timelessly between an imagined future, in which Mississippi is run entirely by Negroes, and a fabled past, in which the Crimean War, occurring in 1886, is fought with modern war planes. For a while, space and time are suspended. Ultramodern "dorophones" ring, planes fly, and magic carpets skim cool glades without so much as a patent pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prospero's Progress | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...further trouble. Local Negro businessmen put signs reading "Soul Brother" on their stores in the hope that rioters would pass them over. The afternoon and evening were relatively quiet as the usual Saturday night crowds gathered in the streets. After sundown, however, small bands of youths began to rove through the area. Unlike Friday night, the action was not centered on Blue Hill Ave., but was scattered throughout Roxbury. Police raced from one incident to another, but their presence only seemed to increase the tension...

Author: By Jonathan Fuerbringer and Marvin E. Milbauer, S | Title: Roxbury, Quiet in Past, Finally Breaks into Riot; Why Did Violence Occur? | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

...narrow streets with children, animals and a startling collection of peasant faces. None are professional actors; the Apostle Judas is a Roman truck driver, the Virgin Mary in her later years is Pasolini's mother. Pasolini catches their simplicity and intensity with powerful effect. His camera seems to rove, news-reel-style, seeking truth among the halt, the healed, the healers, the doubters and the eyewitnesses involved in some ancient miracles. Occasionally, the film is as violent as history itself. The slaughter of the innocents looses an avalanche of pity and terror upon a sunny hillside, and the Crucifixion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Communist's Christ | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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