Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, if the film makers go to the trouble of recruiting Astaire and Simpson, why not work out action that would permit these masters of movement to show an affinity that spans professions and generations instead of having them just stare stupidly at each other...
Among disaster films, The Towering Inferno is the superepic. Based on not one but two bad novels, featuring four stars above the title instead of just one and having several scarcely less important figures (Jennifer Jones, Fred Astaire, O.J. Simpson) among the supporting players, it required an unprecedented combination of two major companies (Fox and Warner Bros.) to produce. Merely to turn out a single skyscraper they conspicuously consumed twice the amount that Universal spent to destroy all of Los Angeles in Earthquake. That near-crash of a 747 in Airport 75 is not even in the same league, fiscally...
...football scout, he might well select Running Back Anthony Davis of Southern California as the first pick in the N.F.L. draft. Many fans would agree. Davis, after all, not only humiliated Notre Dame recently with four touchdowns, including a 102-yd. kickoff return, but also eclipsed O.J. Simpson's career rushing record at U.S.C. Moreover, he was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy (the prize went last week to Ohio State Running Back Archie Griffin, a junior). Those who hunt pro talent for a living though, say that Randy White, a defensive end from Maryland, is likely...
...LIFE WAS by Jeffrey Simpson. 146 pages. Praeger. $19.95. This collection of crisp black-and-white photographs illustrates aspects of American life from 1880 to 1915. The dates are more or less arbitrary, a roomy frame for the works of the 16 photographers whose portfolios are included. Some are well known, others relatively obscure. All survive in these photographs, along with their subjects. Eyes stare back from these pages with startling clarity...
...Simpson predicted as much last season. When Buffalo finished behind Miami with a record of 9-5, Simpson announced that the Bills would soon be Super Bowl material. If that day comes this year it will be because the Bills have rapidly developed Into a well-balanced team. Last year Simpson gained 2,003 yds., and Fullback Jim Braxton ground out 494 yds., giving Buffalo the most productive two-man running attack in the history of the game. But that was about all the attack they had. Not so this season. Though Simpson has been running at about half last...