Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clutch foul-shooting by Caldwell Jones offset a Junior Bridgeman three-pointer in the final seconds and gave the 76ers the victory. In other conference semi-final action, the Kansas City Kings topped Phoenix, 95-88, to earn a seven-game victory and the right to face the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference finals...
...Angeles Dodgers, National League West. Tied with the Houston Astros at the end of the 162-game regular season, Los Angeles lost the title in a one-game playoff, then went home to lick its wounds-literally. "Our clubhouse looked like a hospital ward at the end of the season," recalls First Baseman Steve Garvey. "On that final day against Houston, there were only two players in the lineup who had started on opening...
...lineup has one big gap: Pitcher Don Sutton, the alltime Dodger leader in victories (230, against 175 losses), joined Houston as a free agent during the offseason. Says Garvey: "You hope that the whole staff can combine to take up the slack. And we have some good young pitchers coming along...
...United States, by virtue of its hearty and longstanding support of the Shah's regime, was party to the torture of Kazem and thousands of other anti-Shah demonstrators. With this in mind, it comes as no surprise that when the camera follows Kazem and his wife to the Houston Astrodome, it pans across the stadium, filled with enthusiastic fans on their feet singing the National Anthem, and then focuses on Kazem, who remains seated, his face grimly defiant as the words "land of the free" echo through the stadium...
...their attempt to present both a personal and social perspective on the situation in Iran, the directors follow Kazem around Houston, using their camera carefully and unobtrusively, often relying on glaring juxtapositions. Whenever Kazem's wife appears in a scene, as she does for instance, in a sequence where Kazem sits on the beach and points to his scarred feet and ankles, the camera constantly shifts, focusing first on the Iranian's dark, weathered face and then on her plum, ivory face. The contrast is sharp and suggestive: for while Kazem describes, with grim experience painted on his face...