Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alex is the latest in a long Hollywood line of women whose sexuality makes them both super- and subhuman. Vampires. Or, in Hollywood's word, vamps. Since 1915, when Theda Bara starred in A Fool There Was (based on Rudyard Kipling's poem The Vampire), the American movie screen has been pocked with predatory femmes fatales. What made them evil? Usually, that they liked sex as much as men did, if they were decadent Europeans played by the likes of Garbo and Dietrich. Or, if they were homegrown, that sexual frustration twisted them into satanic schemers...
Saturday against the Crimson, Holy Cross was leading 34-6 and had the ball at the 20 yard line with less than four minutes left in the game. Holy Cross quarterback Jeff Wiley dumped a screen pass out to Gordie Lockbaum, who raced 75 yards down the sideline before he was tackled from behind by Harvard safety Jim Smith...
Against Harvard Saturday, Gordie broke free after taking a screen pass from his quarterback. But he was run down in open field by Harvard's second-string safety. At the end of his run, Gordie lay exhausted on the turf...
...third and six, Harvard's standout quarterback Yohe--who came out throwing--completed a screen pass over the middle to fullback Tony Hinz, good for 10 yards and a Harvard first down. With Harvard facing a third and seven from its own 45, Yohe scrambled right and avoided heavy pressure before hitting cutting tight end Kent Lucas for another first down...
...while playing in her aunt's backyard. Trapped underground for 58 desperate hours, the child seemed doomed. Yet a down-but-determined West Texas town rallied round and literally clawed its way to her rescue. The drama offered the ultimate counterpoint: the dark currents of world events shared the screen with the whimpers of a helpless toddler crying out for "Mommy...