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...book jacket of Orr on Ice says that it is a book about Orr's style of hockey. Setting your own style by age 22 can be a cool thing: the Beatles did it, so did Bernadette Devlin...
...crowd that has come to see Bobby Orr at the Coop includes a lot of high school girls, both of the heavy eye shadow and the clean-cut varieties; older women weighted down by shopping bags; excited little boys, themselves hockey players-all held back by proud Cambridge cops...
...gets the sense that in Orr's case style has become a limiting thing, Hockey is very definitely his whole life, and real change seems non-existent. Everything is aimed at winning more games, scoring more points, perfecting the style. And the public reinforces these drives...
...Orr recalls when he was a little boy dreaming of becoming a hockey star. Now as he signs his autograph one wonders if in that dream he ever recognized that being a hockey star includes a lot more than just playing hockey. Orr shrugs and says, "That's part of your job-to make kids happy...
...Bobby Orr is making kids of all ages happy. The American public asks its sports stars for more than athletic ability: ghost-written books, snappy clothes, press agents, and shrieking girls are all part of the game...