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Cleveland's defensive secondary was similarly gifted but vain. Cornerbacks Hanford Dixon and Frank Minnifield barked like dogs at their own great plays. Bones began to fly out of the grandstands, and a wooden doghouse became a bleacher fixture (until one Sunday a security guard noticed it took more fans to carry it in than out, and investigating, found a keg of beer inside). After last January's narrow play-off loss in Miami, the 8-8 Browns were plainly getting better but were still 17 years between postseason victories...
...nonsense here. The blues have no tolerance for fancy language or extravagant rhythms. This is music in hard focus and precise form, haiku for voice and guitar. "All my love's in vain," Robert Johnson sang, and whenever that feeling comes around to anyone, it is always to a blues accompaniment...
Astronomers have struggled for years, and in vain, to answer a nagging, fundamental question: Why is the universe lumpy? Some regions of the cosmos are crowded with giant clusters of galaxies, millions of light-years across. Other, even vaster spaces seem to be largely empty of matter. Scientists have assumed that this unevenness resulted from irregularities in the big bang that began the universe between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago. But that greatest of all explosions was almost perfectly uniform, as evidenced by its leftover radiation, which radio telescopes can detect in every part of the sky. Then...
...while a better informed and more alert public results from the educational and instructional efforts of the mass media, here too, there are casualties. Some people are confused and frightened by exaggerated reports of new and dreadful diseases; some with untreatable or terminal diseaeses have their hopes raised in vain. Misinformation also leads people to seek medical care needlessly and makes them vulnerable to exploitation by quacks...
...many dead spots and blank expressions, and the dialogue often sounds like comedy writers' Muzak. (Grodin: "I'll see us all go to our graves before we lose this ranch!" Garr: "You go to your grave; I'm going to bed.") Burnett seems especially subdued, looking in vain for the precise parodic target that would launch her into an over-the-top lampoon of the kind she mastered on her old variety series...