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...book's vast array of photographs is often more expressive than the text it decorates. In portrait after portrait, Brian Jones slowly loses the fierce beauty of his youth, transformed by heroin and fear into a corpse-like tag-along, who by the end can barely keep time with a pair of maracas. More cheerfully, Charlie Watts maintains through all the years his proud, patient detachment from the tumult created by his mates. He sits, smiling behind his humble drum kit, clearly amazed that he, or any other grown man, can do this sort of thing for a living...
...carry, 120-yd. day, Cal showed he has become an automatic four or five yards a carry. He may not be the fastest guy on the team (definitely not), but he is Harvard's most impressive straight-ahead runner in recent history. He has lost the easy-to-injure tag and proved remarkably resilient over this season's long haul, and now needs only 230 yards over the next three games to break Harvard's single-season rushing mark, which now stands...
...protagonist, Iago, Christopher Plummer gives a shrewdly structured yet hearteningly scenery-chewing Performance--careful and nuanced enough to dispel Colerdge's nagging "motivelessmalignity" tag. At the start he is sleazily pthetic, a bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage he is erect and twitching against a back wall, his eyes glazed as if his brains were being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through...
...sports story: an agreeable underdog team known as the California Dolls and managed by a comically shrewd eccentric (Peter Falk) overcomes various tribulations to achieve a morally satisfying-and suspensefully staged-climactic confrontation with their longtime nemeses, the Toledo Tigers. Since the sport in question is something called female tag-team wrestling, there is a certain novelty of milieu and characters that has its entertainment value...
...student told officers the automobile's license tag number, and police traced the car's registered owner. The student later informed police he had given them the wrong number...