Word: sweets
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Ideally, in compliance with pro football's strict rule that all complaints about officiating be made privately and in writing, that is the kind of sweet demurrer Commissioner Pete Rozelle would have liked to receive from the Redskins' coach. Graham, however, chose the more traditional method of disputing a call: he blew his stack. He raged onto the field and threw a penalty flag at an official, and later told reporters: "The officials stole the game from us!" For such bad manners, Rozelle socked Graham with a reported $2,500 fine...
...nearly fired for leading a student strike against "an indifferent, broken-down faculty" and "Victorian social standards." Thus Cheek is an appropriate president for the campus where the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee got its start in 1960. Says Cheek: "I'm not telling my students to be sweet little nigger boys and girls so they can get a good...
...Sweet Eros and Witness--Two one-acters by Terrence McNally, notable for their spasmodic blasts of humor and the most extended nude sequence to date to appear on a New York stage. At the GRAMERCY ARTS, 138 E. 27th...
...hours later, Ivers joined them. The substitute drummer "Turk" had by now jelled into Chaka's style and was wielding great flourishes of beats expertly, Ivers going into his characteristic end-of-a-phrase gesture of jerking open his left arm as if on reflex, Gilbert Moses playing sweet and sharp riffs--the blues was thriving and one wondered a little about the need for "new rock...
Wildly improbable as these goings-on may be, Novelist Stephen Jones has a gift for sweet and savage satire reminiscent of that unwholesome trio: Nikolai Gogol, Nathanael West and Samuel Beckett. His characters parody themselves in obsessive dead-end conversations, groping their way circularly past each other through muddled clouds of private thought and uncertain motive. In this first novel, his descriptions of hotels, restaurants, odd corners of small towns and the seedy people who inhabit them, haunt the mind's eye. Yet Jones' real talent is for making the improbable seem necessary and the grotesque plausibly humdrum...