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...free throws at the end of Game 6, the 7-ft. 2-in. center was asked about those familiar butterflies that infest stomachs. His, he explained, had long since expired of old age. When he first arrived at UCLA as Lew Alcindor, Abdul-Jabbar was a sculpture of pipe cleaners, all connected at right angles, that later became high-tension wires. Now he is the most serene mobile in sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Playing for The History Books | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...more accessible play. Its plot is less confusing (though only slighty less so--in both plays, important questions are left unanswered until the final moments). It also has only two characters. Peter (Eric Oleson), a bland, upper middle-class man much like Daddy, reads and smokes a pipe on a park bench. Jerry (Daniel O'Keefe), an alienated, upset man, confronts Peter and tries to communicate with him and draw forth any sign of life from Jerry's passionless existence...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Still Crazy After All These Years | 6/26/1988 | See Source »

...book by the American science writer Martin Gardner. Soaking up the water in his toilet with rags, then leaning deep into the bowl, he took lessons in Hebrew from a fellow prisoner stationed at his own bowl in an adjacent cell, who called out to him through the lavatory pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Game Plan FEAR NO EVIL | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Michele Uhlfelder then fired a penalty shot past Dermody, wrapping it around the opposite pipe, to cut the Harvard lead...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Laxwomen Trip Terps, 10-7 | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...officer flashed his warning lights, and the driver stopped. Looking into the auto, Cieplensky spotted six canisters protruding from a nylon flight bag on the back seat. Some were labeled BLACK POWDER. The trooper was even more astonished at what he found on the floor: three high-power pipe bombs contained in red fire-extinguisher cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs In New Jersey and Naples | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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