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...first play of the next drive, Brown lined up with three wide receivers to the left of the formation and sent Malan on a sweep behind the blocking receivers and a pulling guard. The play went for 73 yards and a touchdown to give Brown a 17-7 lead going into halftime...
Vidal's big sprawling novel about America's transformation during and after World War II coats its ethical inquiries with plenty of narrative sweeteners: the sweep of history, celebrity walk-ons, conspiracy theories and reams of conversation, much of it witty, some lumbering. But the issue of power and who should hold it is never far from the surface. Sanford confronts the scheming and ambitious Congressman Clay Overbury, who also appeared in Washington, D.C., and asks, "Why must you be President?" To Overbury, the answer is obvious: "Some people are meant to be. Some are not. Obviously...
...Creem magazine led to gigs at Rolling Stone, where Crowe felt more like a groupie than a critic. "I always remember that us-against-the-world thing," he says, recalling his days with the bands one afternoon in his office in Santa Monica, Calif., "the way it felt to sweep into a hotel lobby." Says Wenner: "He was such a fan. Artists gave him access because of that." Just as Miller pursues Stillwater's members for a cover story, Crowe wrangled Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin for the cover of Rolling Stone in 1975. But several rock...
...Vidal's big sprawling novel about America's transformation during and after World War II coats its ethical inquiries with plenty of narrative sweeteners: the sweep of history, celebrity walk-ons, conspiracy theories and reams of conversation, much of it witty, some lumbering. But the issue of power and who should hold it is never far from the surface. Sanford confronts the scheming and ambitious Congressman Clay Overbury, who also appeared in "Washington, D.C.," and asks, "Why must you be President?" To Overbury, the answer is obvious: "Some people are meant to be. Some are not. Obviously...
...window wearing a tight red and yellow satin shirt and a white cowboy hat, looking more like a rock star than an insurgent. But while the guerrillas are single-minded and serious, the German authorities are bemused and the Olympic Committee more inclined, at least in this retelling, to sweep away the embarrassment of the siege than to protect the lives of the hostages. The callousness of the IOC's decision to proceed with events in the course of the siege is conveyed in a montage of slow-motion footage of that day's events, driven by a Led Zeppelin...