Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. All about a middle-aged widow and her smart-mouthed son trying to make a new life for themselves. Directed with raucous, stops-out vitality by Martin Scorsese and fiercely well acted by Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd and Harvey Keitel...
Would that it might have been their privilege to glimpse the heroic tilts of street-smart handball opponents, pitted al fresco in the angular coliseums of our nation's inner cities. After such a match, the two opponents are likely to crumple in fraternal exhaustion, their palms beaten red and puffy, their legs rubbery with exhaustion...
...Buttle, the word is "smart." He is particularly skilled at covering running backs who slip downfield on pass pat terns. Two other linebacking prospects are Clarence Sanders, Cincinnati, 6 ft. 4 in., 225 lbs.; and Ron McCartney, Tennessee...
...raucous '60s behind him, he is even more successful than in his days as a teen-age idol. A glance at the young Anka hardly explains his durability in show business: could that chubby kid with the wet look who dated pubescent Mousketeer Annette Funicello really have been smart? Paul was the son of a Lebanese restaurateur in Ottawa, but he was only hungry for success. At 14, he won a three-day trip to Manhattan in an IGA soup contest ("I collected the most labels"). One bite of the Big Apple made him want more. Within two years...
Then, in another turnaround, on November 12 of this year, Hines quit the squad. (In an apparently unrelated move, sophomores Roosevelt Cox and Roland Smart also left the team.) At the time, Hines refused to comment on the matter. Now he is willing to say the conflict between his life on and off the court had become too great. He felt he was cheating himself in both his athletic and academic pursuits. When the crunch came, Hines decided to take the off-court life more seriously...