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...friend Hands explains: "The Bucks play, say the Braves, in Buffalo. The line is the Bucks and nine points, so you figure, it's a steal. But Jabbar has a sprained thumb, and the Braves have won 23 straight at home. The Bucks win it, but by only four points. Lotsa people bet big." Meaning that there's always more to any game than strict measures of talent reveal. You've got to research a game before you bet. The bookies don't; their job never goes beyond quoting the line and handling the cash. Despite their practical...
Take the Monday night game. When I saw Hands and the Doc at 2:30, the Buffalo weather report was of paramount importance. The combination of rain and astroturf means different things in different ball parks, particularly if one club runs a lot. Then there was Simpson. He'd sprained an ankle the week before. Was he fit? "I hear he's only 50-75 per cent," Hands told me. At 3 p.m., there was no line, but Hands guessed it'd be three points and the Bills (meaning a bettor wins his bet if the Bills win by more...
Journey Through the Past examines the history of Neil Young's rock groups--Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse, Crosby, Still, Nash and Young, and the Stray Gators--using their songs and personal reflections to create a Commentary on Our Times. In case you don't find the lyrics or the singers' pained contortions sufficiently eloquent, Young hammers home his messages with grandiose allegorical scenes. The product displays the artistic force of a Fritz Pearls poster and the musical imagination of the Johnny Mann singers...
Ordinarily, a bad rock film can be saved somewhat by its music. The Orson Welles even installed new speakers for this occasion. But Journey Through the Past is so insufferable an excursion that not even the combined talents of Buffalo Springfield and CSN&Y can get it back on course. For the price of two tickets, you can buy yourself a record. With his few seeds of ideas, Young harvests only boredom...
...another multi-year contract with the Bills, ending the speculation that he still wanted to be traded to a California team. "At home in Bel Air," he explains, "I looked around at the material things that I have and I thought about what we've gone through in Buffalo and I didn't want to be traded." Confident that the Bills are destined for the Super Bowl in a season or three, he says: "We cried together. Now I want to drink champagne together...