Word: hondo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...costumes used in the performance. She describes her favorite apparitions this way: "The Jester is a bedspread, some socks and curtains, beads and bells. Buttonface is pajamas, a favorite shirt, lots of buttons, a vegetable steamer, socks and an old cloth flag I used to fly in Arroyo Hondo. The apparitions are gentle reminders to the Amtrak passengers that dreams are important aspects of our lives...
...backyard again. He's playing by himself." The image delighted Fitch, but only for a moment. "I don't know," he sighed, unable to blame Defender Rodney McCray for Bird's three-point plays inside and out. "What can anyone do with Larry?" What would Havlicek do? John Hondo answered confidently, "Let him get 50 points and make the other guys get six or eight...
...Sackett is illiterate and speaks with a clanking formality that sounds like John Wayne's movie lines ("It is a hard land, ma'am, and we'll have no truck with those who come with idle hands"). The Duke, in fact, played the title role in Hondo, from the novel of the same name, one of more than 30 L'Amour books bought for the screen...
...Celtics--Cowens and Havlicek included--have departed over the last few years, Hondo after a year-long farewell party, Cowens with only his personally written epitaph as a goodbye. But Arnold Auerbach remains, and the boundless ability of the oldest Celtic of them all is why the Celtics--infinitely capable of finishing third in the NBA Atlantic Division--might instead garner another green and white flag for their rafter collection...