Word: portlanders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...getting enough playing time or asking to be traded. The Sixers wasted their formidable skills in playground pyrotechnics and ego-invigorating one-on-one duels. The limitations of such tactics were all too evident in the championship series: Philadelphia was whipped by the less-talented but cohesive and unselfish Portland Trail Blazers. When this season began with a 2-4 whimper, Coach Shue was dispatched and Cunningham summoned...
...well-balanced club that has Forward George Gervin, the highest scorer in the league (28 point average a game). While the 76ers are fighting it out in the East, the Western Conference will hold a trial by fire guaranteed to produce a team that will be undaunted by Philadelphia. Portland is recovering from an astonishing run of injuries. At week's end Star Center Bill Walton had missed 21 straight games after his left foot was operated on for tendinitis. He should be ready for the playoffs. Portland will be especially worried about the Denver Nuggets...
...Portland...
...opening paragraph of "Protest Time Again" [March 6] telescopes events that took place almost a full year apart; the Stanford and Santa Cruz sit-ins concerning investments in South Africa occurred last spring, the Oregon and Portland State events in recent weeks. The nature of these events was also sharply different; the massive sit-ins last spring were remarkably peaceful and dominated by ideals of nonviolent civil disobedience, whereas the Oregon shows were run by an avowedly Communist organization, the Student Revolutionary Brigade, and involved small numbers of self-proclaimed revolutionaries...
...Hollywood '30s movies and slapstick. Perhaps the funniest sequence traces the relationship between two women who discover that they are married to the same man, a trucker who conveniently spends most of his time away from his two homes. After sustaining the initial shock, Dallas Angel (Ann Wedgeworth) and Portland Angel (Marcia Rodd) compare their "mutual" husband's bedside manner over drinks--many, many drinks. Wedgeworth's naive and honest persona and Rodd's cool, assertive character play off each other perfectly; both actresses are accomplished in their timing and facial expression. Not since Zero Mostel and Phil Silvers...