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With the new 3-4 defense choking off the long run and seamless zone defenses in the secondary denying all but the perfectly thrown pass, the big play is often the game-breaker in the N.F.L. this season. Often that play comes from the little men, especially on kickoff and punt returns. Many teams carry a diminutive run-back specialist on their rosters. As fearless as they are frail-looking, they await the ball amid the growing thunder of approaching tacklers. Momentarily obscured by a wall of blockers, they duck toward the sidelines in a suicidal dash toward glory. Johnson...
...were suddenly sellouts. The days of the six-piece Texas blues band and the scruffy cowboy threads were gone forever; Boz was fronting a full orchestra and twirling stylishly onto the stage in silk scarves, Cardin suits and Gucci loafers. The image, after all, fit the music--slick and seamless pop, immaculately produced and maddeningly catchy. It flirted dangerously close to disco without ever quite stepping over the line, and it worked. Millions of albums sold and Boz Scaggs gained mass acceptance for the first time...
That colossal yet fine-grained self-confidence, the sense of sharing and building on an inviolable tradition of pictorial language, the assurance that history is seamless-all that is gone. The paintings remain; their author seems a cultural impossibility...
...brother stunted by failure, an old school enemy in suicidal despair because Simon has casually alienated the affections of the woman he loves, a wife driven into a dismal affair by Simon's emotional sterility. As they attack Simon from many directions, their function is to reveal the seamless perfection of his ability to withstand all efforts to draw him into the mainstream of life. In the end, they conspire with the superb Tom Courtenay to reveal Simon not only as a hypnotically fascinating theatrical figure but also, perhaps, as a cautionary archetype...
...apologized for the rather humdrum manner in which the Reds won the opening game. Said Anderson of the 5-1 victory: "I don't think we played very exciting baseball. We ought to be more aggressive." For the Reds, lack of aggression meant stealing only one base. A seamless defense purloined potential Yankee hits, and strong Red arms kept New York base runners back on their heels. Outfielders George Foster, Cesar Geronimo and Ken Griffey fired balls back to the infield so quickly and so accurately that no Yankee was able to stretch a base hit. The pattern...