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...McMillan, the most self-revelatory writer in the world--this week, anyway--she grouses that "nobody would dream of asking Toni Morrison who she is sleeping with." Later, her Jamaican friend Plummer, a slim, amiable fellow who studies hotel management at Diablo Valley College, pokes his head into her cluttered office. He admits that he is "flattered" to be the model for Stella's Winston Shakespeare, though "I don't really read books." "But he will," says McMillan, "or else he's moving." Laughter all around...
...points to the New York Knicks, who aren't exactly world beaters, and another game to the Toronto Raptors, one of the expansion teams that have diluted the talent in the N.B.A. Beyond the Big Three of Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman and the Spider of Split, a.k.a. Toni Kukoc, the Bulls have an odd assortment of projects and castoffs. Stan Albeck, a Nets assistant coach and former Bulls head coach, says, "Back in November, one of our broadcasters, Mike O'Koren, told me he thought the Bulls could win 70. I bow to no one in my admiration...
...EUGENE TONI, 46, Alexandria, Va. A sergeant in the 101st Airborne and leader of a sniper team, he stepped on a land mine in Vietnam on Oct. 9, 1970, and lost both legs below the knee. That is also the date the military believed he died. In 1990, during a visit to the memorial, Toni, who now works for naval procurement, was searching for the names of friends who had died in Vietnam. "I just flipped back to the Tonis, and the directory had my name. They had my rank and service right, except that I was alive. I showed...
...always just a bit suspicious: Dikembe Mutombo of Zaire, Toni Kukoc of Croatia, Georghes Muresan of who-knows-where (not to mention Anthony Mason of Miami) all standing sternly, introspectively, for a tired old song they hear night after night? As the national anthem strikes up before every National Basketball Association game, the trash-talking, the rivalries and the sneaker contracts all fade into the background as the players appear to become consumed, if only for a moment, by their national pride. Television cameras--on the rare occasions when the anthem is televised-- zoom in for tight close...
...extensive reading list focuses primarily on twentieth century American writers such as Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Jack London and William Faulkner...