Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corrado match, with the score tied 8-8 at the end of the bout, the referee awarded an extra point to Wildcat Norm Saucey for riding time, which gave New Hampshire the victory...
...streets to see if the new moon had appeared, signaling the start of Muharram. Government troops opened fire on the chanting crowd with automatic weapons. Official sources said that nine persons had been killed and 35 wounded, but diplomats, making independent checks, pegged the number of fatalities at a score or more. Two Newsweek correspondents and a reporter for the London Daily Telegraph were beaten and briefly jailed by soldiers when they tried to cover a clash outside their hotel. An Iranian guard was killed during a conflict between protesters and security forces at the gates of the U.S. embassy...
...movie follows its robber heroes from their early years as clumsy stickup men through their big score and its legal aftermath. There are some giddy set pieces, most notably a gummed-up bubble gum factory robbery, but it is the intimate moments and throwaway wisecracks that pay off best. This is due in no small part to Friedkin's cast, which is full of idiosyncratic comic actors who delight in playing amiable lowlife slobs...
...Minsky 's, Friedkin devotes great care to the ambience of Brink's.The production design by Dean Tavoularis (Godfather II) creates an almost dreamlike portrait of the ethnic tenements, greasy dives and teeming alleys that define the heroes' oldtime Boston underground. There is a jolly background score by Richard Rodney Bennett, as well as appropriate quotations from Walter Winchell and Movietone News. Devotees of Friedkin's most recent films may be shocked to discover that Brink's is utterly devoid of gore and brutality...
...grownup. She, of course, turns out to be the chorus girl who saves the show by secretly advancing him money and then going on when the temper amental star (Van Devere) incapacitates herself. The juvenile she falls in love with -he is an accountant who composes a hit score overnight-is played by Barry Bostwick, who is also a gangster in Dynamite Hands, which wins for him the versatility award for this picture and serious consideration as a very promising newcomer...