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Patrick Ewing will probably make more money, but Lynette Woodard, 26, is almost certain to have more fun. Calling it "the opportunity of the century," the 5-ft. 11-in. basketball player last week became the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters, fulfilling a longtime dream. "The Globetrotters were always special, but they were even more special to me," explains Woodard, whose cousin is ex-Trotter Hubie ("Geese") Ausbie. The all-time best female college scorer when she graduated in 1981 from the University of Kansas, Woodard was captain of the 1984 Olympic gold medal- winning U.S. women...
...would replace this predator with the conversationalist, the type that goes to parties to discuss Sartre, or demonstrate some tricks he learned with MacPaint. Harvard parties would become more cerebral, more sophisticated. There would be a free exchange of ideas and opinions much like what took place in the Harlem Renaissance or in the Paris of Gertrude Stein. After all, a party is a party is a party. You only go to parties to meet people anyway. Do you really need alcohol to do that? Wouldn't Descartes do just as well...
Aretha Franklin, once the world's greatest living soul singer, has sold out. The erstwhile Queen of Soul, who had a string of big singles in the 1960s--"Spanish Harlem," "Respect," "Think," "House That Jack Built"--has returned to the music scene with a giant media splash. You know: the kind that goes "Pop, $$$$, thud...
...bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts or Harlem, conk means to straighten a person's hair with a lye solution, reports Cassidy, as well as carrying the more universal connotation of hitting "someone hard, esp on the head...
...Average, average. He's a very unmotivated guy. He just doesn't get with it. It's shame, too. Everybody in the world thinks he's got so much potential. Baseball play, he pitched against Brown, they hit four balls into the Harlem River. So you know he's been that way in everything there is. I'm really annoyed at him. He really could have won the game...