Word: slants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Restic changed his strategy. He shelved the sprint-out type of attack he had employed in the opening half, and went to play-pass action, using fakes to the backs and short slant passes by Brown in an attempt to rejuvenate the passing game...
...seven-yard sackof Brown by Dartmouth's superb linebacker Jeff Hickey set up a third-and-goalsituation from the 17. Brown play-faked and hit tight end Paul Sablock on a quick slant at the three, who proceeded to piggy-back two Dartmouth defenders into the end zone for the score...
...side. Does every person with the price of a Smith-Corona deserve to be called freelance? The sobering answer: most editors' greatest complaint is that many "writers" don't bother to read a copy of the magazine before submitting articles and wildly miss the publication's slant. So-called freelancers fail to deliver assignments more than 50% of the time and have an awesome record of not meeting deadlines...
...press, the most dangerous effect of corporate domination has been the pretense of objectivity. The belief in an "objective," unbiased, impartial press is radically wrong. In even the most straight-forward reporting there is always a subtle slant, or room for interpretation, and a newspaper will betray its inclinations in a thousand small ways. We hear that the press must be "objective," because it is "powerful" and can influence "partisan" politics. But the press has never lacked power and political influence; only now power is concentrated and therefore more formidable. What the call for "objectivity" boils down...
...version. But such bad-mouthing has an unfair ring; if the director had retained the heavy-handed horse symbolism of the stage version, the critics' court probably would have found Lumet guilty of emulation when his duty called for an imaginative adaptation. Acknowledging his obligation to present a different slant, Lumet has stripped the story of its dependence on icon-like imagery and lent the narrative a stamp of realism that is quite appropriate to the special demands of cinema. With considerable assistance from the shining performances of Richard Burton--his finest in recent memory--and the promising Peter Firth...