Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Junior midfielder Charley Ames started things off with a hard-fought score six minutes into the third quarter. He took a pass at midfield from Dan Kopanz-- playing for the first time this year -- forged his way through a pack of Indians in front of the goal and slammed in the score...
...there, in the sixth game, it ended. The Wilt Chamberlain of the 1966-67 season is a complete ballplayer-no longer concentrating on scores for the record book, instead setting up plays for teammates, scrambling downcourt to fight for rebounds and break up Warrior attack patterns. In the first five games, Wilt had scored only 82 points, but he had contributed 37 assists and picked off 148 rebounds. In the final game, he scored 24, with four assists and 23 rebounds. At the very last, his defensive play was the difference. Behind by only a point with 15 seconds...
...numbing slim-wittedness of Arthur Laurents' book seems to have infected the score: the songs evaporate as they leave the orchestra pit, despite such potent tunesmiths as Composer Jule Styne or Lyricists Adolph Green and Betty Comden. Some of the dances catch fire, notably a G.I. close-order drill done with smoking speed to syncopated shouts, and in a show that is more candied than candid, Leslie Uggams and Robert Hooks perform with unblemished, infectiously likable honesty. Apart from being lovely to look at, Uggams has a shy sly smile that burgles the theater house. She can cradle...
...firm beat, fantastic ear, uncanny sense of style and structure, and even his rages-were marshaled toward a faithful re-creation of the composer's intention. During a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony, the NBC musicians made a ritard that was not marked in the score but was traditional. Toscanini blew up. "This is my tradizione," he said, pointing to the score. "So play like this...
...last period saw a foul in the draw give the Crimson a free throw which it efficiently turned into a score. Cain scooped up the ball from a big pileup in front of the goal and stopped just short of the crease to put it away...