Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reiner's antic Where's Poppa? (1970), a football coach from a large Southern university admitted to recruiting his teams by kidnaping nine-year-olds and training them mercilessly until they came of competition age. One longs for the inspired insanity of such a notion during this slack and dreary comedy from Walt Disney studios. The idea here is that the coach of a smalltown college (John Amos) and his cretinous assistant (Tim Conway) stumble on a kind of peroxide Tarzan (Jan-Michael Vincent) and import him from Africa to bring athletic glory to the campus. The jokes...
...record high of 145. Three of the new cardinals are Americans: Archbishop Luis Aponte Martinez, 50, of San Juan-the first Puerto Rican cardinal ever; Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros, 57, of Boston; and Archbishop Timothy Manning, 63, of Los Angeles. The new appointments take up the electoral slack left in the college when Pope Paul decreed that cardinals over 80 may not vote in papal elections. Twenty-nine of the present cardinals are past that...
...little of that slack is being taken up by the popularity of Haitian art. One form is uniquely Haitian. Unlike other islanders in the Caribbean, Haitians do not use oil drums as instruments for steel bands. Instead they flatten the drums and cut them into graceful, imaginative steel sculpture. Pieces by Murat Brierre usually sell for about $300. But it is the primitive Haitian painting (much of it now mass produced and second rate) that has largely captured the imagination-and the dollars-of tourists. The bold, brilliant-hued Haitian art is displayed and sold everywhere: in a proliferating number...
...Wolfe picked up the scoring slack for the Crimson, and Harvard once again grabbed a commanding lead, this time by 11 points. The two teams traded baskets but with about five minutes left. Dartmouth again began to chip away at the Harvard lead. A basket by Rick Jones brought the Big Green within four points with just over two minutes left, but Dartmouth missed its last six shots, and Harvard held...
Taking up the slack for coach Bub Zeffelato's team was Jere Nolan, a 12.8-point-per-game player who last night hit 11 of 10 shots from the field and added one of two from the line pick up the game's scoring honors with 23 points...