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Remy missed most of the 1984 season because of a recurring knee injury. A 10-year veteran with two years remaining on his contract, worth more than $1 million, he has been unable to play in the field this spring...
...contrast, Boston's other usual starting forward, Cedric Maxwell, is a connoisseur of leisure. At the moment he is caring for a bad knee. During the off-season Maxwell finds it restful to steer his long car to a construction site and watch other men sweat. While he has an undeniable flair for grand occasions on the court, and was the play-off MVP of 1981, now and then in the ordinary going he throttles down for an evening as if idling at a building project. This mildly annoys most of the other players, but it galls Bird, whose farm...
...fetal movements shown on the ultrasound are thus not reactions to perceptions of pain, aggression, or "imminent destruction," as the film's-narrator asserts. They are simple avoidance reactions, like the reflex of a knee when the doctor taps it. Contrary to the intentionally misleading implications of the film, there is no "silent scream...
...cared about was making sure that Ken took me to the prom? Well, those baby-doll days are part of the unliberated past. Today's Day-to-Night Barbie is 26 and equally at ease in the executive suite or at the disco. We're not talking about knee-jerk feminism here, ladies, and I do think it would be unfair to say, "Barbie goes yuppie." But I now have my own workout center, computer-equipped work station and attache case, complete with calculator, business cards and newsmagazine. Projecting our femininity is still just as important as ever. That...
...Dead Heads are as old as 35, and at least half are in their teens, far too young to remember much about the era of "tune in, turn on, drop out." Yet in their pot-fuzzed peacefulness and in their costumes--tie-dyed T shirts, headbands, out-at-the-knee jeans, granny dresses--they resemble a lost battalion of hippies...