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...that all those moral issues have been settled, we can delve further into the topic at hand: Why did all of Yale's teams wilt like the California Angels when crunch time came? Here are several possibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's Number One Now? | 10/1/1996 | See Source »

...team sports. The attention of this tulmultuous off-season has been on the Lakers run at Shaq. Los Angeles has made no secret of their desire to bring the 24-year-old superstar to the west coast, unloading players to clear room under the salary cap. O'Neal follows Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as great centers who came to the Lakers in the middle of their careers. Ironically, O'Neal and his Orlando teammate Anfernee Hardaway were often compared with Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson, as the next great center-point guard combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaq Goes Hollywood | 7/18/1996 | See Source »

Could any young actress not wilt in this adoring, predatory glare? All right, Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday--but that film had an old-Hollywood glow, and Hepburn was unique. The two Tyler movies are anemic, anomic art-house fodder. One comes from the director of The Conformist and The Last Emperor; the other from the guy who is about to make CopLand, the film Sly Stallone hopes will turn him into a certified Actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE LIFE TO LIV--BUT CAN SHE ACT? | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...apart, just as his protean interests, multimedia successes and towering earnings would put him in rarefied air later on. A source of humiliation in cruel, skinny youth, his height was put in perspective later on, when he met, and was thrown into the shade by, 7-ft. 2-in. Wilt Chamberlain. "I had to admit," he said, "that part of me is proud of what makes me different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEET MISTER WIZARD | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...dunk" now has a dozen shots in his arsenal. He is a center who plays with the work ethic of a point guard and the range of a small forward, and the evolution of his game has led to the revolution of the pivot position. Shaq is reminiscent of Wilt Chamberlain. Hakeem is, well, Hakeem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASKETBALL: THE DREAM IS AGAIN SWEET FOR THE ROCKETS | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

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