Word: goodrich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candles in mad pursuit of the Edge, Carter and Steele have found an economical and princely mode of transport. Riding on stuffed sofas and listening to eight-track-tape rock, they ride from Snoqualmie to Mt. Hood to Mammoth to Squaw Valley with Carter's old skiing buddy Charley Goodrich in the Head ski van, which tends to the needs of Head racers at major events...
That philosophy will soon get its first major test. On April 20, contracts expire between the United Rubber Workers and Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and Uniroyal. U.R.W. President Peter Bommarito is demanding pay and fringe hikes averaging more than 8% annually over the next three years. Among other things, the 87,000 rubber workers want the right to retire on full pensions after 25 years of service, regardless of age, and payments to workers left jobless when plants relocate...
...have Wooden's teams, both tiny and tall, lost only 15 of 281 over the past decade? Former U.C.L.A. players who have graduated to the pros cite various reasons. Milwaukee Bucks' Abdul-Jabbar: "His ability to coach and develop talent is unparalleled." Los Angeles Lakers' Gail Goodrich: "He molds five different personalities into one." Milwaukee's Lucius Allen: "He takes basketball and breaks it into all the little fundamentals." Los Angeles' Keith Erickson: "He's the kind of man you believe in, a man you would like...
...coach, "is based on upsetting the tempo and style of his opponent. He does it by running, running and running some more. He mixes that up by ball hawking, by grabbing, by slapping and by hand-waving defense. His clubs dote on harassing the man with the ball." Gail Goodrich, for one, well remembers the grind imposed by "Mr. Run." "There were nights when I'd come home from practice so tired I'd be lucky to get my clothes off. Exhausted. Totally exhausted. But that tremendous practice tempo would prevail in the games. Coach Wooden...
RAPHAEL SOYER by Lloyd Goodrich. 349 pages. Abrams. $42.50. This is the first full-scale book about New York's painter laureate of the lonely crowd, Raphael Soyer (twin brother of Moses Soyer, another figurative artist). Raphael was an honest and compassionate observer of human gesture. But the reproductions of his paintings here are often given the kind of gala centerfold treatment that might embarrass Michelangelo. Moreover, Lloyd Goodrich's prose commentary unfurls like a bolt of wet wool...