Word: spotless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year at this time Bill Cleary's icemen were packing up for home and the annual Yule festivities with a spotless, undefeated, untied record through five contests. The squad had outscored its opponents by a whopping 35-14 and ranked number one in the East and number two in the nation. There would be no coal in the icemen's stockings...
...Lowell tackle football team finished the season with a spotless 6-0 record. Relying on solid defensive and offensive line play, spearheaded by Jim Jagger, and the versatility of quarterback Jerry Harper, the team has not been scored on in its six victories...
...some would say-the reduction has gone even further, acting on Disney's earlier work in a steady process of self-cannibalization that increases to the extent that the early Disney is seen as high art. The animals get cuter and more anthropomorphic, the forest glade more compulsively spotless, the characters blander; and having deprived Mickey of his rattishness, Donald Duck of his foul and treacherous temper, the Disney studio had no qualms about ruining Alice in Wonderland or Kipling's Jungle Book for the kids as well. Yet within the natural bounds of his style, especially...
...weighing about ten trillion tons. With time running out and Rama's intentions unknown, decisions have to be made. The nearest humans to Rama are Commander Bill Norton and his crew aboard the spaceship Endeavour. They undertake a reconnaissance of Rama's innards, crawling about the spotless metal sky like flies on some behemoth's twitching flank...
...though his characterization isn't terribly heroic, her threat to shoot everybody on stage at the end (oh, dear!) is surprisingly solid. Bob Berger's choreography for the dream sequence, and Lindsay Davis's costumes for it -- a set of immaculate white robes for the solemn lookers-on, spotless black for the duellers -- is particularly effective...