Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIREMEN'S BALL. Director Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde) has fashioned a frothy, funny parody-fable of Communist bureaucracy from a slight anecdote about a group of firemen who stage a party in honor of their retiring chief...
Split by dissension, unsettled by frequent shifts in owners and coaches, and booed by their followers, the Bullets of old played a brand of ball that was each man for himself. More than anything, they needed the knack of playing together as a team. This year they seem to be doing just that, even while utilizing the highly individualistic talents of a superstar and the remarkable performance of a rookie. The star is Earl ("the Pearl") Monroe. The rookie is Westley Unseld, 22, a relatively small (6 ft. 7½ in.) center playing his first year in the N.B.A...
...N.B.A., Monroe is a jitterbug on the court, feinting four ways as he goes a fifth-and his defender heads off in a sixth direction. Explains Monroe: "The thing is, I don't know what I'm going to do with the ball, and if I don't know, I'm quite sure the guy guarding me doesn't know either...
...league were merely bystanders. In a recent game against the Lakers, he grabbed 27 rebounds to Wilt Chamberlain's 21. Two weeks ago, against the Boston Celtics, he hauled down 27 to Bill Russell's 14. Off the defensive boards, Unseld gloms onto the ball and rockets it to half court so quickly that the Bullets' chief offensive threat this season is their headstart fast break...
Surrounding Ondine, like an eccentric's collection of stray cats, are people with some interesting names: Rotten Rita, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Duchess, Billy Name, Irving du Ball, Paul Paul, Taxine, Moxanne and Ingrid Superstar. What they are actually doing, as opposed to what they are saying, is difficult to fathom from the transcript of the tape. The jacket blurb again is helpful: "The Duchess, who has stolen 3,000 pills and a blood-pressure machine, is in the hospital; Ondine dresses in drag for an evening at the 'teenage whore house'; Taxine confesses to Ondine...