Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lethargy was the big Harvard ailment. During the first half the quintet showed no ability at all under either basket, while the Terriers, sparked by Daly and Winkler, took control of the ball after almost every shot. At one time, BU led by 21 points...
...almost every game, someone tried to bring off the difficult "boast shot". It called for the geometric precision of a three-cushion billiard shot, the ball caroming sharply from one side wall to the other and dropping dead off the front one. Properly executed, it is one of the most difficult shots in squash racquets to return. (An impossible shot to return: a "nick," which hits at the floor-line of one of the side or back walls and rolls out with no bounce...
...that specific modern product, the salesman who believes that the approach, the personal angle is everything, that the line of talk is far more important than the line of merchandise. The play shows, too, how in terms of self-respect a man's need to be a big shot turns him, with profound self-disrespect, into a bluffer. But Playwright Miller writes only marginally as a sociologist; in the main he writes with a human being's concern and compassion for other human beings, of the muddle that lies deeper than mistakes, of the self-deceptions bred...
Conventional M-G-M also grabbed some of the most unconventional talent in the business: there would be a Preston Sturges original for Clark Gable, a comedy by Garson Kanin, and Quo Vadis?, a mammoth epic to be shot in Italy by John Huston. But there were also plenty of safe, sumptuous projects along the more familiar M-G-Model, e.g., Annie Get Your Gun, the Broadway musical, a sequel to Mrs. Miniver, and what was described as an "adult" love story for Lana Turner...
...Preston was top scorer for the Crimson and played his best game since the BU contest. In the second period, he beat Tiger goalie Bob O'Connor on a beautiful backhand shot. Earlier he had popped in another on a pass from Dave...