Word: phil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bullets. In toppling the defending champion Boston Celtics on its way into the finals, Washington left no doubt why it has the best record in the league: overwhelming strength up front with Center Wes Unseld and Forward Elvin Hayes, and a brilliant backcourt in shifty Playmaker Kevin Porter and Phil Chenier. The Warriors will counter with Rick Barry, the league's second-leading scorer, and a crew of fleet young players including Rookie of the Year Keith Wilkes. They will need all the speed they can muster, plus a sensational performance from Barry, to wear down Washington...
...preseason prognostications, the Chicago Cubs were the only team in the National League East given no chance whatsoever to top the division. How could they? In a frenzy of house cleaning after the disappointing fifth-place 1973 season, exasperated Owner Phil Wrigley had traded away his strongest players like so many bubble-gum cards: slugging Third Baseman Ron Santo, All-Star Second Baseman Glenn Beckert and the team's longtime pitching ace, Ferguson Jenkins. Result: the Cubs toppled into last place in 1974. Wrigley's response: last winter he unloaded lifetime .296 Hitter Billy Williams to the Oakland...
...survived the McCarthy era much more intact than our generation has survived the disappointments of the civil-rights movement and the antiwar movement. Seeger was also able to resist the trend towards conservatism that claimed many of his contemporaries. Old leftists are usually today's liberals. As Phil Ochs sang in "Love Me, I'm a Liberal...
...Phil Chenier's 27 points and Elvin Hayer 21 led the Washington Bullets to an easy 119-108 victory over the Boston Celties last night in the fourth game of the NBA Eastern Conference playoffs. The Bullets win gave them a 3-1 series advantage going into Friday night's fifth game at Boston...
...audience. No time watching Zero could ever be called wasted--he is our funniest actor, and when he is harnessed properly, one of our best. This Richard Lester movie comes close to using him correctly, and besides, it has three other extremely talented comedians working for it: Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and a battered depleted Buster Keaton. It never gets into the high gear which is part of its promise, but like all of Lester's work, it has a disciplined rambunctiousness and a feeling of fresh air. If Lester had been more comprehending of his actors' talents and given...