Word: lanier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play's narrator and the images materialize from his harrowing memories. He is Tennessee Williams--ne Thomas Lanier--in the shadow of the footlights. Williams had a long-distance father, moved from the deep South to St. Louis and spent three miserable years in a shoe warehouse, presumably writing poems on shoe boxes--just like his character Tom. But Tom is more than the stage presence of the author. He is a voice, a specter in his own dreams, giving "reality in the form of illusion" but always running to the illusionary happiness of movies and liquor until he breaks...
...loathes welfare statism than the century of the other Elizabeth? After decades of living in its atmosphere, Rowse tends to treat the Bard as an intimate. Others may puzzle over the identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Rowse is sure that she is Emilia Bassano Lanier, the half-Venetian wife of a court musician and "a bad lot." As for those who find evidence of homosexuality in the canon, Rowse dismisses them as "silly buggers. The idiots can't see that Christopher Marlowe was a roaring homo, and Francis Bacon was a homo, but that Shakespeare...
...pros spurted during the bidding war for talent between the N.B.A. and the American Basketball Association, which was absorbed by the older league in 1976. Agents negotiated longterm, no-cut contracts, and even so-so players got $200,000 or more a year. Admits Detroit's Center Bob Lanier, a team player himself: "Most people, and I'm one of them, get paid by the statistics they produce. A lot of guys have inflated values of their worth." In Boston, the egos got so big that the players forced the retirement of Coach Heinsohn in midseason. Says Celtic Vice President...
Meanwhile the Pistons, paced by center Bob Lanier's 33 points and speedy guard Eric Money's 24, clicked for 58 points in the second half to eventually bury Boston...
...Cowen's fifth foul, and the antics of Lanier, Money, and ex-con Marvin Barnes cooled the Celtics' momentum in a hurry. Barnes' 20-footer with 2:31 remaining gave Detroit a 91-77 lead, and then both squads traded hoops to yawn the game to a close...