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...other National Basketball Association team, it would have been bad enough, but for the Boston Celtics, one of the proudest dynasties in all of sport, the past two years were disastrous. It was not just defeat: 103 losses against only 61 wins, the worst record in the league. It was the way the games were lost: Curtis Rowe dribbling endlessly; Bob McAdoo shooting 20 times a game; Sidney Wicks driving into a wall rather than passing to an open teammate. It was not, in short, the Celtic way, the kind of team play that brought 13 championship banners to Boston...
...Rowe, McAdoo and Wicks are gone, and the winters of the Celtics' discontent have ended. The arrival of a new Bird (Larry, the No. 2 college scorer for the previous two years and the paradigm of a team player) and the revival of the old Cowens (Dave, the fiery redhead whose intensity inspires others) have combined to rejuvenate a franchise that had lost touch with its legacy. Boston is winning again, and winning the Celtic...
...Celtic-Iberian settlement in Spain, Numantia held off the invaders for 60 years before being taken...
...Morrison, Saint Dominic's Preview (Warner Bros., 1972). Morrison is tuned to a station that does not come through on anyone else's radio. This album contains some of his most lilting music, underlining visionary lyrics of Celtic mystery...
These festive alternatives, along with dishes ranging from peasanty to princely, are suggested by a new crop of cookbooks harvested from Celtic, English, Continental and Latin American kitchens. The five most knowledgeable and digestible...