Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEARS AGO, Bill Bradley's book, A Sense of Where You Are, spoke well for his position as the model white suburban youth with aspirations to play in professional sports. He had methodized and refined basketball so that fat, second-rate coaches would quote his book glowingly at basketball camps, boys would imitate over-the-shoulder and slow, funny-looking foul shots, and--Bradley now realizes--fathers would allow a fifty cent paperback with pictures to replace them. His hook shot, as he diagrammed it, evolved in nine parts; he exercised his peripheral vision by identifying trees across the street...
...large as a football field (cost: $500,000), the city lay frozen -its Grand Canal solid ice (constructed from sheets of white plastic), the Rialto Bridge sagging under layers of snow. The scene represents the dying Casanova's final thoughts about the city of his youth. On signal from the director ("Go, Donald"), Casanova moves slowly across the ice, his black cloak fanned open by the night wind. He pauses, kneels down on the ice, his beaked nose like that of a bird of prey...
Initially, the Dutch were less than enthusiastic about the marriage of their princess to Bernhard in 1937. A member of an obscure German princely family, he had served briefly in the Hitler Youth Movement. However, he won the respect of the Dutch in World War II, when he got his fighter pilot's wings with the R.A.F. and later returned in triumph to The Netherlands as head of the free Dutch forces and the resistance movement...
...youth-conscious America, the subject of death has, until recently, remained one of the last unmentionables. Now there are signs of a more realistic approach to the inevitable. Colleges offer courses in thanatology, and churches present seminars on coping with death. Few viewers, however, will quite be prepared for the overpowering impact of Roemer's immensely humane yet all too chilling treatment of the subject. The show begins with an interview that is not one of the case histories...
Elocutionist, winner of the Arkansas Derby, is another horse who is garnering upset consideration. Trained by E.C. Cashman, Elocutionist also captured the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulf-stream Park, and has the potential to take advantage of a rapid early pace with his late rally tactics...