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...first black player in the N.B.A., now 75% black, was the Celtics' Chuck Cooper in 1950. Whenever there was no room at the inn, Bob Cousy used to walk the streets with 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Complexities of Complexions | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...just wasted an awful lot of opportunities," Detroit Coach Chuck Daly said. "We didn't take open shots. We decided to pass. That's what I mean when I say we were out of sync...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celtics Crush Pistons, 104-91, in Game 1 | 5/20/1987 | See Source »

...have something to do with the fact that Ishtar features two of Hollywood's hottest stars. Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman play Lyle Rodgers and Chuck Clark, a singer-songwriting duo trying to make it in New York. Their only problem is that they are bad. Really bad. Even their agent (Jack Weston) tells them, "You're old, you're white, you have no shtick...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Ishtar | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...Arnolphe's carefully laid-out schemes work, and the chaos that ensues has only been matched these days by the best of Blake Edwards' movies. Sagal takes considerable liberties with the script, further fleshing out Moliere's humor. Scenes take on a cartoon-like quality in the spirit of Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes. At times, Oleson becomes an Elmer Fudd buffoon. He stumbles over tree stumps and brings out an armory of weapons to battle his imagined enemies, looking ridiculously anachronistic in a World War I helmet...

Author: By Michael D. Shin, | Title: The School for Wives | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

...Steve Mullery '89 3:15.09 Gina Anderson '87 3:15.32 Adam Cotsen '85 3:17 Ian Huschle '88 3:22.30 Brian R. Barringer '88 3:28.24 Judith Marson '87 3:30.45 Larry Bowlus '90 3:34 David G. Yu '88 3:42 Nicholas Katsanos '87 3:42.37 Chuck A. Veley '87 3:45 Patty H. Diker '87 3:46 Jim Connolly '88 3:47.57 Diana L. Murphy '87 3:50 Amos Gelb '87 3:51.21 Doug Cohen '89 3:51.56 Jerry Geripechauer '87 3:52 Steve Sornson '87 3:52 Steve Bauphin '87 3:53 Jeff Ticknor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Times | 4/21/1987 | See Source »

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