Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...N.F.L. record in 1975 for net yardage by cashing in on his size: "I'm smaller and harder to grab. If they can't hit me, they can't hurt me." Lawrence dashed into the Chicago backfield earlier this season to sack Quarterback Bob Avellini, but such heroics are generally off-limits to him. "I never go into the interior line-that's no-no land. Venture into there at my size and I'm taking a chance with my life. I also stay out of the way of those vicious pulling guards. When...
...depth charges: "Marble-faced generals in their epaulets and decorations receive the homage of subservient anniversaries. Men reduced to street names meet on this square." Yet when he recounts his surreal dreams, the narrator sometimes seems to be giving an unconscious impression of Woody Allen: "A man with a sack stands in the doorway, and when I walk up the stairs he grabs my ankle and stuffs me into his sack. He sits on my mouth all the way home and later, sitting by his stove, eats hot noodles from my naked belly." Still, such moments are well worth enduring...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar. At the Sack 57, daily...
...that they seem remotely vigorous when the curtain rises. Weller (Cronyn) is in a rumpled bathrobe, and his cane is the only leg he can really count on. Fonsia (Tandy) is encased in a mummy sack of a housedress, and she seems too utterly drained of strength to lift her frowzy bedroom slippers from the floor when she walks. Their mutual terrain is a porch that is peeling in genteel decay. They know all about decay; they are waiting-desperate, lonely, trapped-to find out about death...
Looking For Mr. Goodbar. At the Sack Cinema...