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...Canadiens clearly rank among the finest teams in pro hockey history, the equal of the great Montreal clubs of the dynasty's past. This year's team was born in a spell of rare adversity. When the rough-'em-up Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975, Montreal General Manager Sam Pollock and Coach Scotty Bowman rebuilt their club with canny trades for draft choices (the Canadiens had five first-round picks one year, leaving the other 17 teams to divvy up the rest). The results added size to the already considerable Montreal speed...
...indeed a Messiah of rock and roll, but not for its own sake alone. He had lots to gain. The treatment of Freed points up the main feature of this movie, its defusing of almost all controversial issues at the time with palpable, very nearly relentless innocence. This spell of innocence is not perfect. Tim McIntyre as Freed drinks and smokes (he doesn't swear though) and Chuck Berry is wonderfully crude, but these things are overshadowed by the innocence of the fans and performers who populate the film...
...obscurity in Liverpool to international fame. Most of its events are overly familiar. Like the Beatles, the Rutles play Hamburg and the Ed Sullivan show; they revolutionize rock with an album called Sgt. Rutter's Dart Club Band; they receive M.B.E.s from the Queen and fall under the spell of a guru...
Mark Twain described this wasteland following his visit to the Holy Land in 1867: 'Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies...Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost its ancient grandeur and has become a pauper village...the wonderful temple which was the pride and glory of Israel is gone...
...mutual fund he controlled. Carazo vowed to have Vesco expelled "for the nation's health." But Carazo's victory mostly reflected the voters' concern about the danger of continuismo, the permanent entrenchment in power of the Liberation Party if it was not turned out for a spell...