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While several statuesque thyroid cases share the Las Vegas pivot, the team is fundamentally centered if not completely built upon the solid 6-ft. 9-in. soft shooter and rugged rebounder Gilliam. A high school wrestler from Pittsburgh, he toyed with the notion of playing football at Clemson and embraced basketball last. "When you mention Las Vegas, people think of glitter," Gilliam says, "but glitter wears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Making Its Points, the Hard Way | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

When the Bruins pulled within four points with 3:26 remaining, Crimson guards Barb Keffer and Trisha Brown moved the ball inside to Duncan, whose two pivot shots in the lane put the Crimson up by seven, 78-71. Open-basket lay-ups by Keffer and junior Co-Captain Sharon Hayes, as well as free throws from Keffer, Hayes and sophomore Hanya Bluestone sealed the win for the Crimson...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: W. Cagers Trip Bruins; Briggs Return Is Bright | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

...Sarah normally doesn't think like a shooter, but she's very effective with a quick pivot and a soft touch," Delaney Smith said. "Usually she looks to pass, but now she's starting to play like a shooter...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Women Cagers Come Back Big | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

Filling the pivot spot is 6-ft., 6-in. sophomore David Lang, who improved with each game last season and wound up averaging 3.4 points and 2.5 rebounds per contest...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Caution: Rebuilding in Progress at Briggs | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...Rembrandt; the landscapes are like nothing anyone had painted before. No wonder the little asylum, with its worn flagstone corridors and pine-shadowed garden, remains one of the sacred sites of modernist culture. Here, as in Manet's Paris and Cezanne's Aix-en-Provence, art turned on its pivot in the 19th century to face the 20th. One does not see many exhibitions like this in a lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanity Defense for a Genius | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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