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Great Britain's Princess Anne dresses like "a royal auto mechanic." Rockmaster Elton John "would be the campiest spectacle in the Rose Parade if he entered." Singer Bette Midler seems unaware that "pantaloons went out with hoop skirts." So says Hollywood Designer Richard Blackwell, 53, in his 16th annual "worst-dressed" list. Blackwell, who named Jacqueline Onassis among the worst-dressed women of 1971, gave the top award this year to Daughter Caroline Kennedy, 18. She looks like "a shaggy dog in pants," snipped Blackwell, adding, "Who says bad taste isn't inherited...
...Neil decided to continue his affiliation with the hoop sport by becoming an accredited basketball referee. For three seasons, Buddy donned the zebra suit and blew the whistle, in the process gaining valuable insight into the many intricate facets of the game. O'Neil's calm demeanor on the Harvard bench towards officials can no doubt be attributed to his initial career on the other side of the fence...
...most of us--that is, anyone who is not big enough to play hockey, or tall enough to play hoop, or rich and blithe enough to cultivate winter tans--the problem of keeping the body in one piece until the swallows fly remains...
...honest. Reading the sports pages these days means three things: football, hockey, and hoop. This, in turn, means reading the words that a small group of grown men are paid to write about a somewhat larger group of grown...
...balance, Carey took charge. He personally out-scored the Judges 6-2 to tie the game at 74-all with five minutes left. "In that situation, you naturaaly go to the hot shooter. Carey was really smoking; every time he got the ball he'd go to the hoop. So we gave it to him," Fine said...