Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama opens with Sam and Willie, two middle-aged Black servants, cleaning up the teahouse owned by Harold's family. They are soon joined by teen-aged Master Harold, returning from school. Having spent time with these men since he was a child. "Hally" banters with them as friends, discussing the details of his morning. Styling himself as a typical liberal egalitarian student, he laments that "It's a bloody awful world when you think of it, what people do to each other...Where's progress? Every age has got its social reformer." Sam, the more intelligent and articulate...
Penn punter Sam Coroniti's woes highlighted perhaps the most unexpected strong Crimson performance, that of sophomore Rob Steinberg, who took over the punting and placekicking in the wake of Jim Villanueva's thigh injury last week. While his one shot at a field goal was blocked because of a poor snap and a strong cross-wind blew two extra-point kicks wide, his punting was another story...
...were brilliantly nimble and self-confident and often disastrously wrong about what counted most. They could be overbearing men, and curiously disconnected from the realities of American life. Once, after Vice President Johnson talked wonderingly of all the brilliant characters Kennedy had brought into the White House, House Speaker Sam Rayburn remarked to him, "Well, Lyndon, they may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff...
This French-West German co-production was filmed in English in 1981 by a Polish emigre and stars an Australian (Sam Neill), a German (Heinz Bennent) and a French-German-Algerian-Turk (Isabelle Adjani). Alienation is, not surprisingly, all. Adjani bickers endlessly with Husband Neill, flirts with the mysterious Bennent, and wanders the deserted streets under a sky clouded with portents of apocalypse. One day, in a creepy subterranean walkway, she is seized by violent cramps, writhes about and delivers a glutinous hunk of protoplasm...
...second half was dominated by tenacious defense, and just when it looked like Lowell would pull off a major upset, Currier quarterback John Frederick threw a 25-yard bullet to Sam Buchanan, who was standing alone in the endzone. Skip Gillom tied the contest as he went over on the conversion, and regulation ended...