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...what is all this drumming and dribbling coming out of Dallas now? A week ago, the National Basketball Association staged its All-Star festivities at Reunion Arena, where come March the National Collegiate Athletic Association will house its Final Four tournament. To complete the mood of a basketball world slightly out of whack, the N.B.A.'s annual slam-dunk preliminary was won by an undersize Texan, 5-ft. 7-in. Atlanta guard Spud Webb. Meanwhile, the long-range shooting medal went to a 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. forward, Boston's Larry Bird. The game that followed was overpopulated with seven...
...something strange had just happened. Larry Bird had missed those shots. Bird--the National Basketball Association's three-point shooting champion, the NBA All-Star, and arguably the league's best clutch player--blew...
...including the 17th century Kremlin) and the proverbial cast of thousands, the eight- hour, $27 million epic looks spectacular. Maximillian Schell, the most prominent of four actors who play Peter, has moments of leonine power, and Vanessa Redgrave is striking as his treacherous sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard and Mel Ferrer--is lost in the pageantry. Edward Anhalt's script is flabby and inert, and history is contaminated with hokey invention (a bogus meeting in London, for instance, between Peter and Sir Isaac Newton...
With the Minutemen, Hayes was elected to the Boston Globe All-Scholastic team her junior and senior years, played in the junior Olympics for three seasons, was nominated to the Middlesex League All-Star team for three years--and sparked Lexington to the Middlesex League Championship as the Most Valuable Player her senior year...
Area coaches named five Harvard men's water polo players to the New England All-Star team...