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...Owning a pro-football franchise is a dream that seems to possess every high- rolling American businessman who ever scored a touchdown in high school or wishes he had. The rewards are not limited to locker-room privileges and the honor of being addressed as "Mr." by an All-Pro tackle. Most N.F.L. stadiums are filled at kickoff time, and last year the owners of the 28 franchises divvied up some $1.2 billion in TV contracts. Understandably, the N.F.L. barons have been loath to share the spoils. More teams mean smaller slices of the TV pie. Businessmen who want...
...dance, the human body defies gravity, time and its own limitations; it is man's most eloquent leap toward godliness. Almost a century of the art on film --from the cooch dancers of the 1890s to the breakdancers of the 1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring...
...dance, the human body defies gravity, time and its own limitations; it is man's most eloquent leap toward godliness. Almost a century of the art on film --from the cooch dancers of the 1890s to the breakdancers of the 1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring...
SENTENCED. Mark Gastineau, 28, 6-ft. 5-in.. 270-lb. all-pro defensive end of the New York Jets, who was convicted in September of assaulting a man in New York City's Studio 54 nightclub; to 90 hours of community service conducting a football camp at Riker's Island correctional facility for jailed adolescents awaiting trial. Said presiding Criminal Court Judge Alan Marrus: "I'm sentencing you to Riker's Island-not as an inmate but as a teacher...
...perhaps more accurately, the upswing in Ithaca began when Cornell hired former All-American and All-Pro Maxie Baughan at the start of last year...