Word: skating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having only that much to say, this free-flowing film short-unbroken by a single word of dialogue-says it with exceptional humor and freshness in precisely 18 minutes. Never overemphasizing, music combines with the insistent scrape of skate wheels in a cheery valedictory to the beardless lads (all played by nonprofessionals), presumably headed for new spills and thrills on the freeways of biological maturity. Producer Marshal Backlar, 30, and Writer-Director Noel Black, 28, thus establish themselves as novice moviemakers who seem happily unafraid of going their own way. They resolutely tackle a minor theme and polish...
...group would show up enmasse. Harvard's secretaries, those invisible people of the University, could no doubt look in their mirrors, shrug their shoulders, and walk, run hitchhike, or even skate to their desks. If any group is truly essential to the day-by-day operation of Harvard, it is the University's 1000 secretaries...
...skater was still waiting her turn: Peggy Fleming, 17, a diminutive (5 ft. 4 in., 108 lbs.) high school senior from Colorado Springs. Shy and a homebody, daughter of an itinerant newspaper pressman, Peggy did not even learn to skate until she was nine. When she won her first (of three) U.S. championship in 1964, experts were as impressed by her girlish grace and pleasant looks as by her acrobatics and technique. "Peggy is not a fiery skater," said Dick Button. "She is a delicate lady on the ice." And at Davos, it figured to take more than delicacy...
School Is a Ritual. In the past, Peggy's main weakness had been her tracing of the compulsory, or "school," figures, a repetitive series of "paragraphs," "rockers" and "counters" that comprises 60% of a figure skater's score (v. 40% for free skating). Davos' 5,500-seat stadium was virtually empty last week as the skaters went through the exacting ritual, tracing and retracing each figure while judges got down on their hands and knees to search for the slightest bulge in a circle or the telltale double line that proved a competitor had used (heaven forbid...
Steve Bettencourt took advantage of confusion in the defense to put Brown back on top at 12:19, and 20 seconds later Tom Coakley's slap shot deflected into the goal off a Harvard skate...