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Scientists tried to save the bird from extinction by crossbreeding it with a hardier sparrow. But Orange Band died before they could complete the job, leaving five hybrid Dusky Seasides -- one of them seven-eighths pure...
...orange, and the blood of strafed civilians waters the countryside, turning it into poppy fields. The drama is desaturated too. The soldiers have no ideals to defend, just their asses; the accompanying music is not Samuel Barber but inane party rock of the '60s like Wooly Bully and Surfin' Bird. In this second section the movie becomes a notebook of anecdotes, always compelling, but rarely propelling the story toward its climax. Unlike Oliver Stone's Platoon, with which it will unfortunately be compared, Kubrick's film does not want to say every last word about Viet Nam. It wants...
...Cooper, and as a result Cousy may be more sensitive than the average white basketball type to the racial undertones black players read into everything. "If I was black," Cousy says, "I would be H. Rap Brown. No, I would be dead." Neglected in all the euphoric stories of Bird's series-saving steal in the semifinals against Detroit was the minor detail that an indiscreet drive by Bird had given the Pistons the ball in the first place. Then last week in the finals, when he almost pulled out a critical Laker game with his dramatic three-pointer...
...Bird is an unprofitable example of a white basketball player, whiter than Elmer's Glue. As he said in the course of reaching out generously to Thomas, "He knows I'm a baaad player." Certainly everyone does. However, this year Magic Johnson took the trophy emphatically while the Lakers struggled for the prize. The critical shot in Game 4, when Boston could have evened the play-off at home, was a short hook that Johnson added only this season, "lifting his game" in his eighth year. That's the customary phrase, though it makes him wonder. "I was asked...
...sweaty, too bearded to be uniform and regulated. By the way, Johnson shot the hook because, at 6 ft. 9 in., he feared his jump shot might be blocked. "I don't take a jump-shot jumper; I take a tiptoe jumper," he said, a good description of Bird's as well. Imagine. Both black men and white men can think and not jump at the same time...