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This book is not about the "moral decline" of the Celtics, as the title suggests. Rather, the authors say the organization, under Auerbach, has been rotten and immoral for more than 40 years. And we do not hear much about the team's "financial rise." Instead, we hear a tale of a racist team in a racist town, taking on the role of the White team in a Black league...
...lies just across the border from the fanatical or the tacky. Miracles may turn into roadside tourist traps, Fellini scenes. A revelation may go commercial and look like a snake farm beside the highway in North Florida. The transcendent moment falls from grace and spoils on the ground like rotten fruit. So the territory of the miraculous must be approached carefully, by stages, passing from the gaudiest, shabbiest outer display toward what may, occasionally, turn out to be a deeper truth...
...Temple of Doom, Empire of the Sun, just to name the top of the line), no one can doubt the director's emotional attachment to his material. It's just that he has chosen the wrong way to demonstrate it. In effect, he has spoiled his brainchild rotten. Hook is not bratty, which might at least have been fun. It's stuffy, like one of those overdressed rich kids, standing forlorn in the corner at a party, afraid of ripping his clothes...
...Rotten luck. Twice. It's a curse...
...images in Chang's book is that of her father, a self-sacrificing Communist official who denied his family party privileges as his part in an attempt to establish egalitarianism in the country. (At one point Chang's mother complained to him, "You are a good Communist but a rotten husband!" Her father only nodded, saying he knew.) He is swept away by the Cultural Revolution. But not before one supreme act of courage. Asked to praise so-called good officials by writing an adulatory wall poster, Chang's father refused -- even with the threat of beatings from Maoist thugs...