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...leaves behind splendid memories. In 1984 he led the Celtics to an N.B.A. championship that included two tense overtime victories over the Lakers and his friend Magic Johnson. In the 1987 eastern conference finals, with one second left and the Celtics down 107-106, Bird intercepted a Detroit ball and passed off for the winning basket. Said he: "I could take my game to the next level just on the roar of the crowd." In the constellation of athletes who helped propel the N.B.A. to record popularity and profitability in the past decade, Bird will be linked with his Dream...
...four sorceresses are splendid: Plowright in high Lady Bracknell form, accommodating herself to happiness; Walker, sensationally poised and pretty, radiating a soigne sexiness; Richardson (Dance with a Stranger) as a sad Madonna doomed to fidelity; and Lawrence, a TV comedy star, as a liberated slave gaily savoring her freedom...
Just in time for the annual August vacation of psychiatrists there arrives a splendid mystery set in the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Institute. In THE SATURDAY MORNING MURDER (HarperCollins; $20), by Batya Gur, an analyst has been murdered. The suspects include her psychologically astute colleagues, who harbor mixed feelings about the victim...
Frank Lloyd Wright's masterwork gets a splendid overhaul...
...AMERICAN BALLET THEATER'S PROduction (Romeo and Juliet) was lovely, the music (Prokofiev) splendid, and the principal dancers (Laurent Hilaire and Sylvie Guillem) enchanting. But the roiling applause at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House went mainly to the man who was making his U.S. debut in the orchestra pit, RUDOLF NUREYEV. Now 54, the century's most celebrated male dancer has got a leg up on a new career as a conductor. Admirers who feared that he could not achieve so radical a transition without embarrassment may rest easy. Nureyev, who started conducting both ballet and stage performances with considerable...