Word: detroit
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George Plimpton is most widely known as the lean and rumpled patrician who trained with the Detroit Lions and then shared that male fantasy with football fans in his best-selling Paper Lion. Now, in The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Plimpton indulges the fantasy that he is a novelist. The book, which began as a benign hoax in the April 1, 1985, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is based on a charming conceit: a narrator suffering from writer's block tells the story of Sidd Finch, a British-born Buddhist-trained monk who can throw a baseball 168 m.p.h with...
...fascinating documents in the odyssey of the American artistic achievement," with a first printing of 250,000 catalogs, le cirque Helga opens this week and will, of course, be jam-packed until late September, when it begins its progress to Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit, where it will finish in January 1989. The Metropolitan in New York City rather pointedly refused...
PONTIAC, Mich.--Vinnie Johnson scored half of Detroit's points in a decisive 20-8 fourth quarter run as the Pistons beat the Boston Celtics, 113-105, last night to force a seventh game in the NBA Eastern Conference finals...
...Celtics, playing without center Robert Parish, who was suspended for slugging Detroit's Bill Laimbeer in Game 5, and without Coach K.C. Jones, who was attending his mother's funeral in California, appeared to tire in the fourth period...
After a basket by Johnson gave Detroit a 108-96 lead, the Pistons' Rick Mahorn grabbed a rebound and threw it the length of the court out of bounds with 3:29 remaining...