Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...runs by Simmons, a screen pass to Chris Kiah on 3rd down and 17, and a pass to Lee set up Ticknor's quarterback sneak...
...quiet, at first, for 26-year-old Joseph Schmuckler, program trader for Kidder Peabody. The blinking number on his computer screen, which will signal him when it is time to unleash his electronic firepower, is advising him to wait. But suddenly the stock market begins to move downward, and the telltale digit on Schmuckler's screen starts changing like a countdown at Cape Canaveral. The trader and his two assistants erupt in a frenzy of shouted telephone conversations as they advise colleagues in New York City and Chicago to get ready for a blast of trading orders. "Strap on your...
...turn their attention to the light above the bar, where they root for the Giants or the Jets or, only rarely, the Patriots. They comment on the unfolding action, not with a fan's admiration but with an insider's cynical expertise. They see on the television screen a flash from their past, a dim, half-remembered moment from their athletic youth. They call that moment into focus at the bar, embellishing it. An argument ensues. "In your dreams," someone says. They laugh. The bar door opens. A big, shambling man with a droopy mustache enters with the tender-kneed...
...contemporaries are oblivious to. He smiles every now and then at a comment by Summerall, as if Summerall had missed the point of a tackle, and once in a while, he will nod vigorously at something Summerall says, as if in total agreement. Sometimes something happens on the screen that causes Fran to make an abortive gesture in his chair, a twist of his shoulders, as if eluding a tackler, and suddenly he catches himself. He looks around sheepishly, but no one has noticed. ("Sometimes in the bar, I have to catch myself," he says. "I don't want...
...CONVENTIONAL film-maker, Avildsen said he had no secret dreams waiting to burst onto the screen, no particular places to show or tales to tell. A good story and good characters, in the median sense of the word, is what he likes. His opinion of artsy films, such as Room with a View, is no-nonsense Hollywood: "It was pretty," he said, "but it was endless. The characters weren't that compelling." Certainly not as compelling as, say, Apollo Creed...