Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Without Supper. Not everything can be blamed on Gary Coleman. The sassy black kid-the slick-speaking bro who scores points off the ofay-goes back to the Good Times of the mid-'70s. But it was Coleman, on Dijfrent Strokes (NBC, Thursdays at 9 p.m.), who parlayed his cheekiness into stardom. And now a horde of white child actors have co-opted the game. It must be stopped...
...display commenced on Harvard's first possession of the second quarter with a perfectly executed screen pass that clicked for a 78-yard touchdown. The gridders, playing no-holds arred football in their last game of the year, went for the two-point conversion and reached paydirt on a slick run around...
...Carpenter Center this weekend, Center Screen presents the truly remarkable film, Workers '80. Chronicling the crucial negotiations in Gdansk in August 1980, this documentary makes fascinating use of facial expressions counterpoised with the tense bargaining sessions. Watch Lech Walesa outmaneuver slick party bureaucrats. Any brief exploration of the themes does not do justice to the movement or the movie. Just...
...Crimson has a few problems passing. Diminutive but slick quarterback Ron Cuccia is too short to be a dropback passer, and has had most of his success of short screens to 1979 Game star Jim Callinan. Though Harvard boasts a pair of strong tight ends--Linus O'Donnell and Bill McGlone--they have accounted for only five receptions all year. Perhaps Harvard coach Joe Restic is saving them as a special surprise for his Yalie counterpart Carm Cozza. Speedy Paul Scheper, the senior wide receiver, has caught only nine passes thus...
...mean streets, personifying the gangster as a tragically overreaching hero (The Public Enemy); the next he was to be found quickstepping on his jaunty dancer's pins along the sunny side, tapping out a dandy Yankee Doodle up tune. But it made no difference where he traded slick jabs and smart-mouthed gibes, for he always made it clear that though he could be touched, he could not be trifled with or, at his core, changed...