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...dynamics of a hook shot, stresses the importance of practice, describes a high polish. But it says almost nothing important; none of the things that could have been said if he had chosen Connie Hawkins as his subject and talked about what it feels like to be the greatest showoff in the world and what it means when you're not a Rhodes scholar and your knees begin to crumble when you come down with a rebound. McPhee calls basketball a series of "compounding alternatives. Everytime a basketball player takes a step, an entire new geometry of action is created...
...short, Andy Schmidt is a showoff, a permanent elbow in the eye of polite society. One can only be awed by the comic daring of everyone concerned with The One and Only for trying to make such a character appealing for the length of a movie. The One and Only does not quite make it, because even as portrayed by the likable Henry Winkler, Andy is finally a tiresome fellow. But the effort is a game one, and there is a certain originality about the fate that the film works out for Andy. Having failed as an actor...
...warm and friend's not at all a showoff." Mason said...
...oldest and best folksinger around, a dominant if little-known figure for 15 years. He's good at everything--old spirituals, jugband stuff, political songs, love songs, even messing-around songs, and is a master of the acoustic guitar without being a showoff about it. Van Ronk is playing with June Millington, formerly of Fanny, and the show looks like easily the best in Boston this week...
...often behaved, as his biographer admits, like "the illegitimate offspring of H.L. Mencken and Annie Oakley"? Wallace Stegner, novelist (The Big Rock Candy Mountain), Stanford professor, and a fellow native of Utah, concedes that DeVoto was often wrong as well as "spectacularly right." He was also an 'Implacable showoff" who "set world records for taking himself seriously." But yes, says Stegner, DeVoto has been low-rated, chiefly because he ran with no coterie, and in fact ran head down against most of the opinion makers of his day. For him literature was a contact sport...