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...runner who, as one scout puts it, "can carry the ball 55 times a game and five-yard you to death." If durable is the word for Owens, slippery is the term for Pittman, who racked up 31 TDs for the Nittany Lions. "An elusive will-o'-the-wisp," reads one scouting report. "You go to tackle him and there just isn't anybody there. He has an uncanny knack for picking his hole and getting through it before the defense knows what's happened...
...Bolivia, a sterile melodrama sets in. The script now embraces such weighty matters as the alienation of the cowboy from modern society, the alienation of the outlaw from repressive society, and various other alienations. In other words, alienation-a good theme, but a little too ponderously applied to this wisp of a comedy...
...students--and the students weren't black militants, they were white, or moderate, or both--had insisted in asking questions which verged, well, on insult. The reason is that Styron didn't look like an author, a man deeply troubled by hard-to-grasp, will-o'-the-wisp problems; he looked like an administrator...
...moment, it looked as if someone had doused her with water. No, said Twiggy, the outfit is supposed to look that way-sopping wet. At a show in London's Ritz Hotel, fashion's will-o'-the-wisp unveiled the latest shapes from her designing firm: slippery nylon tights that have a "liquid look." But why the bags in the knees and the sags in the ankles? "It's just Twiggy," explained Justin de Villeneuve, her perennial fianc...
...foul tavern he encounters an alcoholic teacher on the verge of a breakdown. Though Eddie at first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding, and each leaves with a little more dignity and strength than he had before. A wisp of a theme, but written with a lyrical quality that makes the reader ache for Wideman's sad, inarticulate people...