Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although by now it is clear to everyone that Dartmouth has deteriorated quite a bit in one year, the Green is probably able to handle the Lions. Columbia's line, which had a great deal of trouble holding Gary Wood last week, is neither strong nor swift enough to do the job against Dartmouth...
Prehensile Tale. Boulle's tale clings prehensilely to this one turnabout joke, but rings nearly as many satiric changes on it as Swift did on the horsey Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration for the bag of naked humans their husbands have shot. The survivors are put in cages in the local laboratory, and Mérou finds that his dim-witted cellmates take weeks to learn to salivate when the keeper blows a whistle at mealtimes and never really catch...
...Crimson lost halfback Leo Swift, who was taken out of the game in the second period with an injured knee. Swift will probably be on the bench for the rest of the season...
...swift flow of images turns to honey from this point on; although the scenes are even richer, too much sweetness at too slow a pace becomes cloying. Don Fabrizio (Burt Lancaster) decides that Tancredi (Alain Delon) should marry Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the richly dowered daughter of the ambitious mayor, rather than his own shy daughter, Concetta. The last third of the film is spent at a ball for the couple. An excess of eating, drinking, and dancing causes lethargy for the guests and unfortunately for the viewer as well...
...fourth quarter, with a one-point lead, Harvard seemed to be heading for the winning touchdown. Halfback Leo Swift took a pass from McClusky and weaved his way to the Dartmouth seven-yard line where he attempted a lateral. The lateral turned into a fumble, and Dartmouth took the ball 93 yards for eight points and victory...