Word: talent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search of a quarterback, Harvard has severe problems. Mike Buchanan has talent: Joe Restic was absolutely right to praise the Alabama option-specialist for the job he did as a sudden fill-in last week against UMass. It was a harrowing situation for an inexperienced signal-caller. But Buchanan no longer is a fill-in: he is the man. And he could have used a nice, easy, non-League game this week to get a feel for the Harvard attack. The Harvard team in general could have used a breather, to regroup and sort out the upheaval caused...
...Sure the offense suffered with the loss of Sarah, but I am confident that we have the talent on the team to make up for the loss," she says. "The way the team has approached the problem is a perfect example of just how motivated...
...Scheper says what impresses him most about Restic--and it is a talent Scheper values greatly--is the coach's ability to communicate. In a recent chalk session, Scheper says, Restic "looked at us and said, 'if you do this right, it will work 100 per cent of the time,' and in that room you could have picked up the confidence in your hand...
Obviously, political reliability was as important as artistic talent. As the Bolshoi doggedly continued its tour to Chicago and Los Angeles, Artistic Director Yuri Grigorovich settled on a little-known principal to substitute for Godunov Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake. For Grigorovich, the choice proved a disastrous mistake. Leonid Kozlov was intent on playing Godunov's role to the hilt. Following the troupe's last American curtain call in Los Angeles last week, Kozlov repeated Godunov's final grand jete to freedom...
...surest way to enjoy Yanks is to come to it with precisely the right expectations. This film is so lavish, so long (2 hr. 20 min.) and so overstuffed with talent that one at first expects an epic of Homeric proportions. As it gradually turns out, Director John Schlesinger has a trifle up his sleeve, not a bombshell: Yanks is nothing more and nothing less than an extravagant soap opera about star-crossed lovers on the British home front during World War II. The results are often entertaining, but only for audiences who are prepared to open their tear ducts...