Word: hooker
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...most ways, the story has been intelligently remolded for the screen. Working from the Brian Hooker translation, Scripter Carl Foreman has tightened the play's continuity-a good idea in any Cyrano production-without muffling its lyricism or wit. By dramatizing Rostand's offstage action and breaking each scene into bits small enough for the camera to digest, he has given the picture unusual mobility for an adaptation from the stage. Among the additions: a blade-by-blade filming of Cyrano's duel with the cutthroats...
...continuous except for penalties, and there are no time-outs or substitutes. The ball is put in play by throwing it into the "scrum"--the eight forwards of each team who lock arms, put their heads together, and attempt to get and stop the ball from each other. The "hooker"--middle man in the front row of three--heels it back through the ranks until it is taken by the "scrum half" who hands behind the scrum. He throws it out laterally to the fly half, who tosses it center three-quarters, and they to the wings...
...John Cotter is the scrum-half, Roger Gleeby is the "lock," polo-playing Tom Calhoun the other wing forward, while George Lee, Club secretary, and Brad Lundborg make up the second row. Doug Hardy and Club treasurer Bruce White are in the front row, with Lew Travis as be hooker. The spares are Hollis Hunnewell, Ken Kunhardt, Kit Liang, Andy Eklund, and David Akers...
...Among them: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, Fighting Joe Hooker...
...Leather Strap. In Rome, Ga., a federal jury had listened for ten days to the story of what happened one night almost a year ago in the little (pop. 200) mountain town of Hooker, just across from the Tennessee line. There was not much argument over the facts. A hooded mob of Ku Kluxers planted a flaming cross in the front yard of Mrs. Mamie Clay, broke up a neighborhood party and then hauled seven Negroes off to a nearby schoolyard. There, one by one, they were ordered to strip off their trousers, were thrown to the ground and lashed...