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 This Sporting Life is a 1963 British film which tells the story of a rugby league player, Frank Machin, in northern England whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life. The film stars Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts and Alan Badel. It... 
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 CA Magazine The sporting life
03/01/2001: 606 words, approx. 2 pages She swims, cycles and snowboards with style Eight years, 40 triathIons, and 15 medals later, Josie Daub still has the pre-race butterflies. Even after earning the title of Quebec Cup Season Champion (for women aged 30-34) last summer, she still feels that familiar... summary from source:
Australian CPA This sporting life
08/01/2003: 2,948 words, approx. 10 pages Sport is no longer a game, it's big business. And it's CPAs that are controlling the purse strings, say ROB CANNON AND ADAM CARSWELL Earlier this year, as US forces took control of Baghdad, an Iraqi man joyously emerged from a small cave...
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 Critical Essay by Robert Vas
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[In This Sporting Life] Lindsay Anderson is the first to free himself from what seven years ago he was the first to aim at: the direct attack, the deliberate harnessing of poetry to propaganda, which came then as a shot in the arm but which has gradually been left behind by the complexity of life itself, so that it now seems a constricting rather than a liberating attitude. Here Anderson demonstrates that his social consciousness is not, and never really was, a programme: it is the sine qua non of the exist... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Peter Baker
484 words, approx. 2 pages
[This Sporting Life] is more about life than sport, less about kitchen sinks than the people who live near them. It is also unique: which in Britain means it risks being misunderstood by the public, torn to shreds by the critics and ridiculed by the Wardour-street hucksters. I had expected a simple film about simple people. What Anderson has done is to make as complicated a film as Welles' Citizen Kane about people as complicated as … you or me. It is the intensity of thought that has gone int... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr.
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So many things seem to me wrong about [the killing of the hapless spider at the end of This Sporting Life], it is hard to know where to begin to criticize—or better still, exorcise—such an image. On the simplest and most literal level, unless one is trying to document lapses of sanitation under the National Health, one doesn't find spiders in hospital rooms. The spider is out of place there. It doesn't belong. It's an intrusion, an imposition, an importation. Perhaps a mor...
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