Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this week's cover story, Callahan did not go one-on-one with Bird--except in interviews. In those conversations, Callahan says, "Bird could tell I knew the life." From this week's cover story, one might conclude that Callahan also grew up on skates...
Anyone even casually aware of professional hockey and basketball knows Wayne Gretzky and Larry Bird as shades of no one else, except maybe each other: two unexpectedly alike and amazingly unlikely straw-haired farm boys who are not only reigning at the top of their games but raising the ceilings of their sports. Confounding normal description, confusing standard measurement, Gretzky is not the slickest skater or hardest shooter, just as Bird is not the swiftest runner or highest jumper. One is frankly too frail for the business, the other simply too agile for his size...
...that bracing elevation, can actually feel a shift in temperature. "When the play isn't so great, my hands are cold and my feet are freezing. But when it's really good, I can't get enough cold, it's so hot. And then I don't hear anything except the sound of the puck and the stick...
...Except, of course, Harvard...
...traditional panty raid, where the Third World Community and the Black communities say this is "Stick it to the Jew's week. They bring a PLO speaker or they bring some other opponent of Jewish values and they conduct an event in which they have very little interest except that it really riles up the Jewish community. And we never see the reverse...