Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True Don Chiofaro and John Tyson had slight injuries and did not play. But Harvard's highly-touted defense has not lived up to its press notices, either Saturday or in last week's scrimmage against the University of Massachusetts (which the Crimson won, four touch-downs...
...Reddin. "I call it the blue curtain." But now, with Quinn Tamm poking at the curtain, constructive self-criticism is bringing the police into closer touch with the public...
...play would have been the fourth in O'Neill's aborted nine-play cycle, A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, an epic intended to span two centuries of U.S. life in one family's history. Mansions begins where A Touch of the Poet leaves off, in the Massachusetts of the 1830s. The hero of the earlier play, a swaggering, staggering Irish tavern keeper named Con Melody, has just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory...
...Coming in for the biggest changes at Chevrolet is the Corvette. Rakishly restyled, with a body 7 in. longer than present models', the '68 Corvette has high-backed seats, hideaway windshield wipers and jet-age gizmos like the "spoiler"-a raised airflow deflector that adds a decorative touch to the rear deck, also helps reduce the danger of spin-outs at high speeds...
...being funny now, as Sergio literally begins to die of loving. Unfortunately, Producer-Writer-Director Pietro Germi almost spoils his curiously bittersweet comedy about the trials of trigamy with a mawkish funeral finale in which Sergio's voice provides a disembodied commentary. But not even this last false touch dims the luster of Actor Tognazzi's exquisitely humane performance as a man who loves not wisely but too well...