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...quarrel with his best friend Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall). Sheen, 40, has just the pedigree for the part. In his youth, he was a talented-enough soccer player to be offered a trial by the London club Arsenal, and he proves on film that he hasn't lost his touch. He comes from Port Talbot, the same South Wales steel town that produced Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. Sheen says he spends three months studying characters, "looking at every bit of footage I can find and every book about them that's been written" and ferreting out their weak spots...
...soon turned to dejection, as Omosegbon was sent off in the 56th minute for a foul on Grandstrand. Omosegbon, trying to dribble the ball into the box, took a heavy touch that ran through to Grandstrand. Perhaps frustrated with his poor touch, the sophomore defender decided not to pull out of a tackle on Grandstrand—and paid the penalty...
...exhibition Grace says, “One of them is simply the understanding of the fact that collective organizing and its intersection with visual art can have a real effect on our culture, which is something that I think our generation, yours and mine, is not that in touch with, for whatever reason...
...chain I can see the correspondence between the two: King wrote to his friend, “Did you get one of these? If not, mind if I send him your way? Good lord, this would be like somebody on the Crimson staff of 1979 getting in touch with a Harvard debater from . . . Truman?...
...friendship Paul Fay forged with John F. Kennedy began during a touch-football game in 1942 at the PT Boat School in Melville, R.I. Fay, a California native who died Sept. 23 at 91, had just enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was tossing the pigskin with a few classmates when a skinny junior officer named Jack asked if he could play...