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...become a hard-working co-conspirator in the creative experience. Celluloid, by comparison, is a laissez-faire baby sitter. It asks only that the viewer believe what he sees, that he go with the flow of seductive images and return to intellectual infancy as a passive, pacified fun sucker. The young audience that makes hits these days out of laser shows and locker-room frolics seems bored with the notion that the mind has a life too. And few moviemakers, even the smart ones, are choosing to exercise their craft for the benefit of anyone old enough to vote...
...brother [Mike] is the backfield coach for the freshmen," says Ernst. "He's on the sideline during my games. He'll expect good plays and he'll see my mistakes. On the 63-yard sucker play I expected him to say 'Good run' after I finished. He told me that if I had zig-zagged at the end I could have avoided the last tackler and scored...
...yard screen pass reception at 19 yard sucker and a four-yard catch (a 35-yard total) formed Ernst's contribution to the 38-yard drive that set up Jim Villanueva's tying (10-10) field goal...
They call the play "Veer A O Sucker," and it sure gave Brown a licking. "You false pull the guard and you get the fullback bustin up there," explained Restic. Don't worry, if you don't understand: the Bruins didn't either. When the guard pulled, the linebackers followed, the Brown sea parted and Ernst, now Harvard's leading rusher, raced off for the promised land...
...What's that?" Suder's reply: "That's an elephant." And then there is the joke about Suder's manager, an amateur taxidermist, who shows up unexpectedly and tries to kill Renoir with a chain saw: "I can't wait to stuff this sucker." By now, Suder has acquired other eccentricities. His cabin mate is a nine-year-old girl named Jincy, a runaway from her abusing mother. She comments: "This is weird. I'm in a strange barn, shoveling hay for an elephant that belongs to a nigger." Meanwhile, Suder has decided...