Word: rigidities
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...first training camp, Vermeil served notice that the Eagles were going back to bedrock, Bednarik style. Practices were suddenly twice as long as usual. Rules were rigid. Shell-shocked rookies and veterans alike crumpled under Vermeil's salt-mine regime. In the first ten days, a dozen players walked out of camp. Vermeil remained unfazed: "They don't take the Marines and train them on the beach with ice cream in their hands and then tell them to fight. We're preparing these guys for eleven individual wars. That's what it amounts...
...initial police and press reaction to the arrest drew criticism from some British legal experts mindful of the country's rigid contempt laws, which limit pretrial publicity. While Establishment dailies such as the London Times and the Guardian cautiously avoided any reference to the Ripper in reporting the story, other newspapers, including the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, did not hesitate to underscore the suspected connection for their readers. Britain's Solicitor General, Sir Ian Percival, in a general warning to the nation's editors, intimated that they might be liable to prosecution if their stories...
...play has always been done in such a rigid, lifeless way that people don't realize how funny and vigorous the material is on the page," says Director Wilford Leach, one of the prime movers of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. "We wanted to do the play rather than people's idea of it. We decided to scrape off the encrustations of tradition but remain faithful to the script...
...extremely intelligent rodent--with neuroses. Resnais and Gruault don't question Laborit's rectitude for a second; their film is not so much a work of art as it is a compilation and inter-mingling of case studies orchestrated to fit precisely into the doctor's insightful but rather rigid scheme of things. Mon Oncle exudes wit and originality and Laborit's analyses are fascinating, but the tone of the film--as dry and cool as a psychology text-book--makes it disappointing...
...Baltic port of Gdansk last August, Walesa did far more than seize the reins of an angry strike movement. To millions of Polish workers, he became the symbol of their dreams for a better life. In the process, he helped launch a bold experiment to bend the rigid lines of Communism in a new direction-and hurled a defiant challenge at Moscow's control over its East European satellites...