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Junior Bill Theodore is not as slick and fast as Viita, but he is more shrewd and timely on his attacks. Theodore may be second in epee...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Fencers Draw Weapons For Year's First Battle | 11/29/1967 | See Source »

...second half, the slick Sowley made a couple of acrobatic receptions, the first setting up a 36-yard Klebanoff field goal. Midway through the fourth period, Yale notched its final score on Ron Kell's one-yard burst. Sowley turned in a key 24-yard one-handed reception in that drive to put the ball at the Harvard...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Bullpups Pin 24-22 Defeat On Harvard | 11/27/1967 | See Source »

...Burps. Simon also squarely faces a fact often obscured by sentimental hindsight: a great many bands of the era were inevitably cheap, slick or inept. He quotes Arranger Gordon Jenkins, after an evening of listening to the radio in 1937: "I heard 458 chromatic runs on accordions, 911 'telegraph ticker' brass figures, 78 sliding trombones, four sliding violas, 45 burps into a straw, 91 bands that played the same arrangement on every tune, and 11,006 imitations of Benny Goodman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bands: Play It Again, Sam | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...detective picture is on trial when every time Tony Rome opens a door, there's either a corpse, a gunman, or a naked girl situated vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. True, the state of the American detective picture is low, but not that low. Tony Rome is the most synthetically slick movie since Goldfinger, and affords a point-by-point lesson in how to write dialogue that is neither credible nor cool...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Tony Rome | 11/22/1967 | See Source »

Penn's first goal was attributable to luck and the weather, but the Quakers eliminated any cause for complaint with two undisputably earned tallies. The icebreaker came in the mud and slick left over from a pre-game rain...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Quakers Shut Out Harvard, 3-0, To Break 4-Way Ivy Soccer Tie | 11/6/1967 | See Source »

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