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...fact, the enormous Bruin front has held opponents to less than three yards per rush, and last week held Holy Cross All-American Gil "The Thrill" Fenerty to a measly 54 yards on the ground...
...offered some singular special effects. Sometimes there was a strange gelatinous gunk--"green slime" or "moon glob"--that could be picked up and hurled in lieu of snowballs. There were also acres of empty metal drums, industrial barrels just sitting around; it was hard for any self-respecting young thrill seeker to resist climbing inside and tumbling downhill. Parents seldom ventured into the area. So the town fathers and mothers did not know enough to fear that the moon glob and the barrels might have come from the Baird & McGuire factory, the plant at the Pastures' edge that produced pesticides...
...does it feel? Michael Spinks was asked a few days later. The thrill apparently does not last. "I was champ before," he said accurately enough. "I did my celebrating in the ring." That he did, after stopping and setting some records. Despite 5-to-1 odds against him when he challenged Larry Holmes, 35, Spinks, 29, fought on through 15 grueling, if unstirring, rounds to a unanimous decision and his 28th straight victory, making him the first light-heavyweight champion in history to win the heavyweight title. Spinks' upset ended the seven-year reign of his opponent, who was just...
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After the initial voyeuristic thrill, Roeg's farce runs out of gas--and not only for lack of good lines. Unlike Tom Stoppard's dazzling Travesties, in which James Joyce and Lenin cavort without losing dignity, this film offends the myths it pretends to revere...