Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles Lakers:Last year's Lakers were held together by the mousse in Coach Pat Riley's hair. Magic Johnson was injured late in the season and never regained his brilliance in the post-season. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar looked like a living embodiement of Stepen Foster's "Old Folks at Home." Somehow, the Lakers repeated as NBA champion. Riley, after all, had guaranteed a second crown. But he made no such prediction this year...
...Magic is 29 years old. Before too long, people will have to call him Earvin again. Kareem is 120 and his skyhook is even older...
...Lakers still have an excellent team. Magic (a 19.6 points-per game average last year) is the best floor-leader in the NBA. Byron Scott (21.7 p.p.g., 62 three-pointers in 81 games) is a great outside threat. James Worthy, the MVP of the NBA finals, is one of the best forwards in the league...
...clusters around the seats behind and plays a game of Jeopardy on a laptop computer -- in answer to which the candidate's press staff, quite justly, chants in rallentando: "Boring, boring, BORING!" The journalists all have toys White never imagined -- cellular telephones, laptops, tiny portable television sets, all the magic paraphernalia connecting them to the New World that America has entered...
...Shah celebrated his reign with a $300 million extravaganza. The Pahlavi "dynasty" had just started its sixth decade, the outcome of a coup mounted by the Shah's father, Reza Khan, an army officer whom some regarded as the Bismarck of Persia. Flying high on his magic carpet, the Shah seemed out of touch with the forces gathering against him. Resentment of his Western ways was fanned by the Muslim clergy. Intellectuals, students and professionals thought the figure posing in Ruritanian uniform and a Disneyland crown was not Western enough. These dissenters frequently attracted the attention of the security police...