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...respected if somewhat distant leader. No rah-rah man, his most insistent utterance in the huddle is "Let's get going." Says Griese: "I don't say anything. I just call the plays and make them work." And work and work. Though he is a good swivel-hipped scrambler and has one of the quickest releases in the league, 6 ft. 1 in., 190 lb. Griese is running and passing less and enjoying it more. Once he threw as many as 35 passes a game; against Baltimore last week he threw only eight times. The fact that...
...Villain is acceptable only as a glimpse of procedural tradition, the English bloodhound pursuing his accursed foe. Villain Burton's voice remains one of the most distinctive and controlled in the world. But he is no longer in charge of his face. The little piggy eyes glisten and swivel in a seamed and immobile background. Dissipation, alas, now seems less a simulacrum than a portrait...
...fact, it was a scant thirty by forty feet, with stylish wood paneling and an attractive skylight overhead. Two long rectangular tables, to be used by the prosecuting and defense attorneys, sat at right angles to the judge's desk, filling the center of the room. The jurors' plush swivel chairs lined the left wall. The seats against the right wall were for the press. In the back of the room, four rows of pew-like benches were reserved for spectators...
...source of this conviction was the discovery of a distinct phase of normal sleep which is known as REM. At fairly regular intervals during the night, the electrical waves of a sleeper's brain become as active as they are during wakefulness, and his eyeballs dart and swivel in a series of rapid eye movements (REMs). During these periods of REM sleep, which typically last 20 to 30 minutes, the sleeper is most likely to dream...
Married. Joey Heatherton, 24, nimble-limbed television performer and troop entertainer; and Lance Rentzel, 25, swivel-hipped flanker back for football's Dallas Cowboys and new co-owner of a Dallas night club; each for the first time; in New York City...