Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...division, senior captain John Havens ended his collegiate career in style, winning three tough matches before bowing to Western Ontario legend Phil Mohtadi. Before losing to Mohtadi, Havens knocked off Bowdoin's number one player in the first round, 3-0, and followed with consecutive 3-zip sweeps of Dartmouth's top player Peter Greulich and Princeton's number two man Garry "Foggy" Fogler...
Unfortunately, sheer visual zip is not enough to carry the film; it drags from one scuffle to the next. Deborah Van Valkenburgh, as the love interest of the Warriors' War Chief (Michael Beck), provides a few libidinous moments; a lesbian disco dance scene has its peculiar charms. But The Warriors is not lively enough to be cheap fun or thoughtful enough to be serious. Walter Hill, the talented director of Hard Times, the 1975 boxing movie, badly needs a direction to his career...
...swinging it in my face all day," Bell noted later, "but when you beat a guy three-zip, there's no sense being a sourpuss about...
...film's source material, Crichton's own bestselling novel, had far more zip. Crichton conceived the book as a socially conscious thriller: he not only told the story of the robbery but also drew a savage, well-researched portrait of the economic inequities and moral hypocrisy of the mid-Victorian era. Unfortunately, he has not found a way to translate his Dickensian themes to film. Though his movie contains vivid re-creations (shot in Ireland) of London's stately mansions and grisly slums, Crichton photographs them as if he were a sightseer. His usual acerbic point...
Number six player Wendy Sonnabend also picked up an easy three-zip win. The only four-game matches of the day kept Nell Foreman and Courtney Stimpson steaming and sweating at numbers three and four, respectively...