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...draft choice with the Los Angeles Lakers. Initially, he failed in the pros, but through a combination of good coaching and hard work almost unrivaled in this selfish era, he had become a star. Then, in an instant that any fan, and many non-fans, will long recall, he punched Rudy Tomjanovich in a brawl and nearly killed him. This gentle man, this hero, had marked himself forever with the memory of his black hand destroying Rudy T.'s white face. Two years later, the punch haunts Washington and the game. Halberstam writes, "Even now, rehabilitated, accepted by teammates...
...STORY of the Washington punch is one of many in Halberstam's ledger; he is, of course, the Olympic anecdote champion. No one gets the gossip he gets--the recruiters visiting Bill Walton's mom and dad, the notorious Marvin "Bad News" Barnes taking off on another binge, the team trainer enduring the petty humiliations. Halberstam traveled the entire season with the Blazers and it shows. He knows the patterns of big league life--the hotels, the planes, the soap operas (both televised and intramural)--and the reader's appreciation of the game is richer for it. The basketball story...
Casino Royale (Chittenden Hall): Thousands of Harvard students flood New Haven one weekend, drink a lot, and make general nuisances of themselves. The movie features Cheap vodka as the notorious villain Bad Punch. Don't miss the famous "Davenport Bash" scene starring Warm Stale Beer...
While the show holds a few telling moments, time and again it wastes opportunities for real dramatic punch. The songs become tempting reminders of the power that might have been. "3500," a song about the agonies of Vietnam complete with pictures of the war in the back ground, provides a searing glance at the past, but the moment abruptly ends when one of the characters sarcastically remarks, "That was pleasant." And so the show returns to its banalities...
...bathroom mirror has gotten tired of the rehearsed exaggerated gestures, professorial air, and stubborn righteousness. He goes on for nearly 20 minutes of sophistry, ending as you knew he would. "Harvard may be harder to get into," he says, conceding the obvious, only to catch you with a sucker punch. "Yale wants to give its undergraduates a very different experience than Harvard does. The feeling here is that you may as well put your nose to the grindstone and suffer for four years. You can do extracurricular activities for the rest of your life, but you can only study...