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...notion of a basketball player being too tall or a football player too massive is funny in itself. But the Washington Bullets' Manute Bol and the Chicago Bears' William Perry are straining the boundaries of humor and humanity. Perry has become known wide and far as "the refrigerator," and not because whenever he opens his mouth a light goes on. "I was big when I was little," he likes to say, 13 1/2 lbs. at his birth nearly 23 years ago in Aiken, S.C. He grew to almost 400 lbs., or "350 and rising," according to Clemson University's limited...
Still, a divine plan is scarcely visible in Bol's excruciating thinness, which combines with a perfectly erect bearing to accentuate his height and make Bol, in the phrase of Teammate Tom McMillen, "kind of regal." On ankles like wrists, "Nute" moves with the pumping action of machinery and the caution of a man on stilts. "Kip Keino," Center Jeff Ruland calls to him from behind. "Ah-ha-ha," Bol says...
Even in Africa's Sudan, among the Dinka tribesmen, basketball was known as a logical career for a 91-in. man. Of confused age, though thought to be 23, Bol had a traumatic introduction to the game six years ago. Goaded by a cousin to attempt a dunk, he broke several teeth on the rim. In the spirit of his 7-ft. 10-in. grandfather, a chieftain with some 80 children, though against the wishes of his 6-ft. 8-in. father, a cattleman who died lonely for his only son, Bol inevitably made his way to a local team...
...Moore's first megasuccess in film, Bo Derek did a little of both, accompanied by the hard-breathing beat of Ravel's Boléro. In Arthur, an even bigger hit, duties were shared by Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud, who played his long-suffering valet. There have been a couple of flops along the way, notably the ghoulish Six Weeks, whose bad reviews have left the star angry and bewildered...
...scandal is like radio: it allows the imagination to rove like a child in a flower field, especially when an office romance is involved, and the imagination may cavort among infinite possibilities of after-hour adventures behind the desk-legs sprawled wildly among the Eberhard Fabers; Muzak stuck on Boléro. When the candid spoilsport steps forward to tell it like it actually was, the imagination's freedom is curtailed. The audience grows vengeful. Carnage ensues...