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...final minute, Boston had the ball and a one-point lead when Silas got his crucial tip-in. Austin Carr hit for the Cavaliers to cut the lead to one again, but John Havlicek, who came off the bench in the final five minutes, hit two free throws with 11 seconds remaining...
Talk on the bench shifted from the massacre on the field to an appraisal of the accomplishments of various tobacco chewers on the team: Bill Scheft was pronounced the veteran star, but all agreed that Dave Crowley would be in there for rookie chewer of the year, since "he's gone the distance...
...bench was sitting up and all eyes were on Jimmy Langton as he hit a stand-up triple to center field. Stan Cal promptly sent him home with a single...
Deitch has woven a tapestry of wonderful footage of women talking about themselves. Prostitutes explain that they first turned tricks because they were starving. A clinical psychologist and lesbian talks about the discrimination she has suffered in her profession. An aging housewife sits on a park bench under a gray sky, and shows us the rag dolls she has made and sold for 25 years. Prostitutes in the San Francisco Women's Jail sit around a plastic table, smoke cigarettes, and say bitterly that they will have to turn another trick as soon as they get out, just to feed...
McCall fired the ball to midfielder Billy Forbush, who passed to his left to playmaker Martin, who returned the ball to Forbush right on the goalie's doorstep. The freshman slipped the ball over the netminder's right shoulder for the game winner, and the Harvard bench exploded, dancing for joy in the rain...