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Brown forward Dick McLaughlin opened the scoring on a masterful play at 5:48. He took a long pass in mid-ice and skated down on defenseman Dave Jones. After crossing the red line, he slowed and, using Jones as a screen, whipped a low wrist shot which bounced off the post into...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Stickmen Coast, 5-1, While Wrestlers Lose | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

...shaping his forms, Segal is preoccupied with what he calls "gesture." He does not mean the wave of a hand or the flick of a wrist, but rather the whole attitude of the body. Says he: "You have to know the gesture you want, and then there's always the question of whether the human being can hold that gesture for the 20 minutes it takes the plaster to dry." The result is that artificial postures disappear, and his models slump into poses that are brutally natural. "People have attitudes locked up in their bodies, and you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Presences in Plaster | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...only 5-6 but weighs 170, Cavanagh's line is the biggest on the team. They also have the most lethal shot. DeMichele has a hard left-handed slap shot and Owen, who plays right wing although he also is a left-hander, has a quick, hard wrist shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Centers Turco and Cavanagh Add High-Scoring Potential to Crimson | 12/7/1968 | See Source »

...quietly stigmatized my own wrist a while before to determine whether or not I was asking too much of Steve; when I told him I'd had a fine time, and profited immeasurbaly from the experience with no visible scars, Steve reluctantly agreed to the low-level self-mutilation demanded of him. So, Johnny Hale shooting hand-held high-angle from an Adams House A-Frame, me on a second camera shooting close-ups, and a neighbor incessantly on the verge of passing out or throwing up, holding the lights, surrounded Steve at One A.M. on an April morning...

Author: By Kevin Brownlow, | Title: The Parade's Gone By... | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...essential humor of the situation, he proceeded to re-carve the word, patiently going over each stroke again and again until everyone was disgusted and the film ran out. Johnny and I reloaded inside of a minute and rushed the cameras to the bathroom to film Steve washing his wrist before the blood coagulated. We got the needed shot--blood-stained water flowing down the drain (a la Psycho)--packed up the equipment and went to sleep. We needed sleep because the next day we were going to film a scene in which Pete Jaszi, playing Sinister Butler...

Author: By Kevin Brownlow, | Title: The Parade's Gone By... | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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