Word: costello
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment for the Milwaukee Bucks. Staving off a late rally by the Detroit Pistons, the Bucks registered their 19th victory in a row, to set a new National Basketball Association record for consecutive wins. After his team bounded jubilantly into the locker room. Coach Larry Costello locked the door until everyone had a chance to simmer down. Then he announced grandly: "Let the press in!" In they came-three reporters and a stray autograph hound. "No TV cameras, nothing!" Costello fairly shouted in dismay. "If the Knicks had set this record, the news would be in Tokyo already...
...madness, of contraction, of elevation, of "growing pains," of terror, of playfulness, of ecstasy. Simply to turn this catalogue of seeming abstractions into something palpable and concrete and real is a measure of the extraordinary achievement of the play. The players who perform the feat are Gerry Bamman, Tom Costello, Saskia Noordhoek Hegt, Jerry Mayer, Angela Pietropinto and Larry Pine. To single out one would be to slight...
Serrano led off the tenth with a walk and Turco punched a bunt safely between reliever Bill Barton and first baseman Paul Costello. Fierke then helped his cause with a bunt down the third baseline. Kelly, coaching at first, ruled Fierke beat the throw and the umpire, at second, nodded in agreement...
...Eagle was far from dead, though, Fierke walked the first two batters in the bottom of the tenth, and Park called on righthander Curt Tucker. The junior fastball specialist struck out Costello and Micherone, and the game ended on a line drive to DeMichele at third...
...walk-off is the bittersweet image by which, undoubtedly, Chaplin wishes to be remembered. But beyond his own films is a far more valid reason for remembrance. Since the '20s, international screen comedians have owed their art to him; Harry Langdon, Laurel and Hardy, Harpo Marx, Abbott and Costello, Jerry Lewis, Peter Sellers, Fernandel, Danny Kaye, Cantinflas, Jacques Tati ... all were born in a tip of the Chaplin chapeau...