Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem impossibly culture-bound. It is, however, a tribute to his blithe showmanship that he put them over (along with such later high-minded successes as The Best Years of Our Lives and Porgy and Bess) at the same time that he was fabricating his own broad comic reputation. Sam Gold wyn was his own greatest production, and one can only be saddened that, at 91, death last week finally included...
...Uncle Sam hat and costume and the forcefully extended index finger easily evoke the World War I recruiting poster. The face, though out of context, is similarly recognizable: the gimlet eyes, bowling-pin nose and mashed-potato jowls could only be a particularly cruel caricature of Richard Nixon. And the message boldly lettered around the cartoon character provides a jolt that shakes the drawing's dissonant elements into place: YOU NEED...
Wright's visual effects are often striking: a consumer trapped between the buns of a "Nixonburger," two modest chairs labeled "Legislative" and "Judicial" dwarfed by an "Executive" throne. And he does not mind demanding considerable reading time. Under a cartoon showing Uncle Sam and a small boy strolling through a smudged wasteland, Wright placed the caption: "Well, our spacious skies got dirty when we cut back on clean air standards and we sold the amber waves of grain to other countries. The purple mountain majesties were gutted for strip mining and the fruited plain was leased to Exxon...
Despite the Crimson's advantage in the last two rounds, the outcome of the contest was still in doubt until the second-to-last bout. But with Harvard leading, 13-12, epee man Sam Anderson grabbed an easy 5-1 decision to clinch...
Also, Mike Horton's fifth finishing in the 50-yard dash, Sam Butler's fourth in a strong field of hurdlers, Ric Rojas's fourth in the two-mile, and Jeff Campbell's fifth in the mile, considerably bolstered Harvard's total point tally...