Word: tims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before he made his '78 northern debut in yesterday afternoon's Greater Boston League tilt against the Northeastern Huskies, Harvard's junior hurler Tim Clifford knew how to keep things in check. Clifford works as a security guard at the Radcliffe Quad, so it was really no surprise that when he took the mound, the Huskies acted as if their bats had been locked in the dugout...
Then, with an 0-2 count on catcher Tim Dachos, Stewart made his next pitch a little too good. Dachos chopped a bounding ball down to Burke St. John, and the shortstop bobbled it long enough to let everyone be safe...
...Tim McGee...
...roll, but not for its own sake alone. He had lots to gain. The treatment of Freed points up the main feature of this movie, its defusing of almost all controversial issues at the time with palpable, very nearly relentless innocence. This spell of innocence is not perfect. Tim McIntyre as Freed drinks and smokes (he doesn't swear though) and Chuck Berry is wonderfully crude, but these things are overshadowed by the innocence of the fans and performers who populate the film...
Some of the flavor missing in the script is captured by Tim McIntire's crafty performance in the starring role. Chainsmoking Luckies and always looking in four directions at once, McIntire's Freed is a classic show-biz hustler. The film's best scenes show him at his office dickering with the fast-talking agents who assaulted him day and night. McIntire listens to auditioning singers for only a few bars before turning thumbs up or down, and he exercises his power with sleazy theatrical relish. Unfortunately, even McIntire cannot fill in the movie's most...