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...home storytelling and faculty-lounge chitchat. The storytelling is rich. The chitchat, consisting of philosophical jar gon in several languages, is rather brittle. The heroine, a rural Candide named Faith Cross, is told by her dying mother to find life's Good Thing. She seeks guidance from a swamp witch, a withered and warty old necromancer with one green and one yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smoky Legend | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...very surprised with the jump," Embree said. "This place is like a swamp and I really wasn't jumping that well. In fact I almost missed at six-four. But I'll take it for an off day," he grinned...

Author: By Kurt J. Holland, | Title: Track Team Routs Eagles for Second Victory; Embree Clears 7'1", Sets Indoor Jump Mark | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...Tufts field, which resembled a swamp in certain places, was a big factor in the contest. It hampered passing and slowed down the play as the ball often came to a complete halt in the numerous puddles on the field. Footing, particularly toward the end of the game was non-existent...

Author: By Charles Coolidge, | Title: Spirited Frosh Soccer Squad Outplays Tufts But Loses, 2-1 | 11/7/1974 | See Source »

...that swamp, without which a prison movie is not complete and where we have all done too much hard time. Finally, a compromise is reached. Reynolds will organize, coach and star on a team of inmates who are supposed to give the guards a tune-up game. Naturally, he recruits every psychopath in the slammer for his squad. Naturally, the game itself turns out to be more pier brawl than football-cruel but perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dirty Eleven | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...down in rural Georgia, where some kids on the way to being good ole boys conduct puberty rites by jumping on the acquiescent body of Billie (Joan Goodfellow). Acquiescent, but not responsive. As the fellows wriggle and writhe, Billie lies there, face turned away, absently tossing pebbles into the swamp water. Billie may not be quite all there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Pawpaw Patch | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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