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Another figure of Garden lore, the more widely-known Willis Reed, gave the country one of the greatest sports moments in its history when he limped onto the Garden court in Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals. Having torn a muscle in his right leg in Game 5, the captain and MVP defied expectations and human physiology to inspire his teammates to an incredible victory...
What is the importance of Reed's triumph here? Simply that the most enduring aspect of that magical May evening wasn't the two shots Willis hit in the opening minutes or the champagne bath he received at the end of the game...
...1960s and '70s understood it right away as music to fight Mom and Dad to, especially since their parents usually hated the stuff. Now kids have to accept that most of their own music is not so different from what their parents had, parents who grew up on Lou Reed, to say nothing of Iggy Pop, a guy who was gouging his skin with broken glass when Marilyn Manson was still sticking thumbtacks in his tricycle tires...
...Subterranean Homesick Blues. And there were records in his collection I discovered myself, like Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food and Marianne Faithfull's Broken English, albums I still number among my favorites. There are, of course, bands we've agreed to disagree on. I think Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground was sporadically brilliant; my dad thinks they were sporadically awake. He finds the Band sublime; I think it sounds like a Canadian beer hall...
...paid and why he inspires so much disgust. As for newly freed billionaire Rich, he would be well advised to hold off on his long-awaited dream to stroll down Fifth Avenue and "wave to his friends"; he should sit tight in his luxurious fortress in Switzerland. REED BIRNEY New York City...