Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a kind of magic for her, and in conversation, as well as her act, she returns to those years, as if drawn by a magnet of nostalgia. Lily's family came from the Kentucky hill country, but like many impoverished Southerners, her parents moved north to Detroit during the Depression. She was born there in 1939 and named Mary Jean. Her father Guy became a toolmaker in a brass factory, where he prided himself on being able to devise any tool his bosses needed; often he would bring them home to show "Babe," as he called her. Says...
...auditioned for Garry Moore's television variety show by dancing in bare feet-with taps taped onto the bottoms. Moore was charmed by the innocent grotesqueness of it all and hired her. The show-not Lily-was a bomb, however, and it took three years in both Detroit and New York cabarets before she got the Big Chance on Laugh-In. When she started rehearsing Ernestine, says Producer George Schlatter, "everybody onstage, every member of the crew knew that something important was happening. Lily did more for us than we did for her. We needed her desperately...
...them. There is really very little that daunts Lily Tomlin. When the crew of The Late Show gave her a hard time-or what she thought was a hard time-she marched right up to them. "Listen, you bastards," she said, sounding a little like Mary Jean from Detroit. "I know what's going to happen to me after this movie. I'm going to get good notices and do another film. Do you know what's going to happen to you? Maybe you won't work again for another year. So shove it!" There...
...backboards resonating across the country. Trying to ensure that the equipment-as well as the quality of play-survived the onslaught of a gifted new generation of players, the National Collegiate Athletic Association retained the ban on dunks during warmups. (Regulation-play attrition is high enough: the University of Detroit broke 20 rims, at $30 each, in 27 games.) But it is a niggling constraint, and one scarcely noticed by fans who come to cheer the unleashed superstuffers...
...large and so evenly distributed that Arkansas Coach Eddie Sutton could, with few exceptions, adhere to a self-imposed 500-mile recruiting limit and still field a 26-1 team. Traditional powerhouses such as U.C.L.A., North Carolina and Kentucky made the top 20, but so did newcomers Detroit, North Carolina-Charlotte, Utah and Arkansas. Back in the fold are such born-agains as San Francisco, back-to-back national champions during the Bill Russell era, and Holy Cross, which has not been in the N.C.A.A. tournament since Tom Heinsohn departed...