Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt that Patty Hearst [March 1] was brainwashed? Have we forgotten how our whole society was brainwashed? When radical chic ruled Park Avenue? When Bloomingdale's sold bandoliers for fashionable ladies to sport across their chests? When a Governor told his state's rioters he didn't blame them for taking what they thought should be theirs? When universities turned down fifth-generation, all-A students for the lowest SATs? When middle-class kids became so confused they didn't feel right (or even safe) clad in decent clothes...
...These clothes work for people as uniforms do for certain sports," Designer Geoffrey Beene maintains, adding wryly: "To survive today is a sport of sorts." Beene has the impression that people the world over are working harder than ever before. Says...
...sport full of men who fiercely want to win, Knight, 35, manages to make his desire seem stronger and deeper than anyone else's. When his team is ahead by 30 points and the reserves are in, Knight exhorts at them as if the score were tied in overtime. During a recently televised game against Michigan, he became so disturbed by some bad passes his guard Jim Wisman made that he grabbed Wisman by his jersey and hauled him off the court. If a referee's call goes against Indiana, Knight sometimes succumbs to his hot temper...
Another senior, Larry Fu, said yesterday he felt the co-captains' different personalities would appeal to all members of the team. "Harvard fencing has lacked cohesiveness because the sport is so individualistic," he said. "Simmons and Major should bring it together...
...WORK hyped as a "degenerate film with dignity" might be expected to lack that very quality. And a work which insistently echoes the tritest of cliches--"Nothing pure, old, sport, is ever that simple," or "Do you continue or vanish into the mists of self?"--would seem to be courting ridicule and criticism. Yet despite its inauspicious underpinnings, Inserts manages to transcend a mediocre script to reveal a powerful cinematic drama. Director-writer John Byrum, shooting on a three-week schedule and a minimal budget, has done what all the hotshots for the American Film Theater in many dull...