Word: starr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shooting guard from Springfield, Pa.: Hanya Bluestone, a 5-ft., 6-in. shooting guard from Brookline; Mary Balday, a 5-ft., 7-in. shooting guard from Long Island, N.Y. Both Chandler, a 6-ft. forward from Branford, Conn.: Nancy Cibotti, a 6-ft., 1-in. center from Walpole; Roberta Starr, a 5-ft., 9-in. point guard from Santa Maria, Calif.; and Sharon Hayes, a 5-ft., 11-in. shooting forward from Lexington...
...always been so. San Francisco was gay when that meant merry and blithe, back when its 49ers were gold prospectors, not football players. The city began as a boom town and never quite lost the founding giddiness. "San Francisco was zero in 1848, a Mexican village," says Kevin Starr, author of Americans and the California Dream. "And in 1870 it was the tenth-largest city in the United States." Ne'er-do-wells found themselves making fortunes on minerals or dry goods or prostitution. Young Yankees rode into town by the thousands, looking for adventure and gold...
...mustiness a must? Then the Starr Book Shop (29 Plympton St.) in the Lampoon Castle is your haven. A crowded room upstairs full of classics, and a downstairs specializing mostly in older nonfiction can keep you for hours. Feeling adventurous? Then check out its room of unsorted paperbacks. But be prepared to stand or sit on the stone floor--very few (if any) stools or chairs here...
...future, Starr said he will concentrate on exploring the distinctions between public and private life...
...Starr is the 25th Harvard affiliate to garner a Pulitzer prize. His predecessors include the writer Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38. Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn. Professor Robert W. Coles '50 and Baird Professor of Science Edwin O. Wilson, among others...