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Until his senior year in high school, Sprewell's basketball playing was limited to the netless rims of playgrounds in Flint, Mich., and Milwaukee. James Gordon, basketball coach at Milwaukee's Washington High School, was the one who decided that the gangly street kid roaming the hallways might just have some game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Latrell Was Born, and a Sportscaster Redeemed | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...netless, id plans to ship 500,000 copies of a CD-ROM-based version to retail stores. Again, the bad boys at the always-lower-case id (for "in demand") have come up with a novel retail strategy. The disk will contain the first third of the game--and cost just $5. Want more? Call the toll-free number, pay $35 via credit card, and id will unlock the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WIZARDS OF ID | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...will exhort you to take risks, to be yourself, never to look back or lose your faith. Not I. If the truth be told, I do not want you to take risks. Oh, maybe a selected few to preserve your selfesteem, but not the killing kind of risk, nothing netless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Speech for a High School Graduate | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...accustomed to walking the political tightrope, Marshal Tito's nerve has been severely tested by the netless high wire separating the national Communism of Poland from that of Hungary. In Poland the Soviet Union tolerates Wladyslaw Gomulka's "pure" national Communism; in Hungary it cracked down mercilessly when Imre Nagy tried to dilute national Communism with social democracy. Since the Hungarian crackdown, Tito has gone to elaborate lengths to prove to the Russians the "purity" in Moscow terms of his own brand of national Communism. Last week he did his best to show that his regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: High Wire | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...remember." Lest the Big Show be beautified out of its hallowed form, in other acts Trainer Alfred Court presides over snarling panthers and lions who pose, with noble indifference, among dogs and bears, including the bruin who apparently gets ecstatically drunk on a bottle of beer. Elly Ardelty, netless, stands on her pretty blonde head on a trapeze at the very top of the circus heavens. Massimilliano Truzzi juggles knives, flaming torches and the spectators' nerves. Half a hundred elephants galumph around the ring and take a bow in unison. Hubert Castle staggers like a drunken clubman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Menagerie in Blue | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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