Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those amazin' Celtics open their series with the Houston Rockets for the NBA title tonight at the Garden, Boston's last obstacle to its 14th championship...
...Houston the Celtics must face. On paper, there's no question--the Rockets are 40-42, and the Celtics--62-20--already have 13 green and white banners hanging from the ceiling. The Rockets depend on one big man: the Cettics need Biru, but they have a truly great team. Del Harris sounds like a '50s rock star: Bill Fitch sounds like a basketball coach. And in the Celtic stands there's this man named Red Auerbach. And he'll be sitting in his box during four of the seven games...
...Houston 5, Atlanta...
...matter how many World Premier Ballets PBS produces from Houston, Texas, or how many times some news team makes you an unwilling eyewitness to a disaster, watching television is still deeply rooted in guilt. We make great gestures toward making the medium into some sort of genuine art, or at least some genuinely stylish entertainment--but that's about as far as it goes. It's just not a form to arouse that sort of passion. If one employs Salvador Dali's Paranoid Critical Method, one starts suspecting that television's visceral meretriciousness is what we actually adore...
NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 8. New York 0 Houston 2. Atlanta 1 Montreal 6. Philladelphia 3 St. Louis at Chicago-Rain San Diego 2. Cincinnati...