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...said Pitino. "They're saying what's in their hearts at the time." Pitino had maintained he was staying put as late as two weeks ago, when he was promoting his motivational book, Success Is a Choice. The Celtics became his choice after he talked with team consultant Larry Bird and former team executive Dave Gavitt, who spoke highly of Gaston. Joanne Pitino, the coach's wife and the mother of their five children, also gave the move her blessing. The money, Pitino said, had only a little to do with it. "When your pockets are empty, you make...
...move up and out. The adamant vs. the supple. The strait-laced vs. the unlaced, over whom they exert a flimsy and temporary authority. Every classroom is an implicit smirk. Write what you feel; I feel that I am going to sit here and accept whatever that tired old bird dishes out, and then I'm going out on the green to toss a Frisbee, flirt, chomp on an Arch Deluxe, live. I'm going to leave him in his own dust...
Reina Aguero fixes electrical wires in Fidel Castro's Cuba, while living with the "remnants of a bird's nest" in the chandelier of her decaying house; Constancia Aguero Cruz basks in affluent loneliness in Key Biscayne, Fla., where Cuban songs play "slow as regret, on the afternoon radio." Constancia wears Adolfo suits as she drives her pink Cadillac to the factory she owns; Reina sashays braless among the mahogany trees. Yet though they live on opposite sides of the revolution, both Aguero sisters share something deep as blood: a matter-of-fact commitment to the magic of their island...
...then again, didn't we all think about it? Larry Bird, coming back and turning into the second greatest coach in basketball history--behind Red Auerbach of course--and returning the Celtics to the glory of the past. I guess it could still happen...
...apartment with meat loaf and beer in the fridge, a stuffed E.T. doll on the nightstand. "I had a parakeet once," she admits. "I hated it, I was glad when it died." Frankie is a pro at cloaking loneliness in irony. She probably was glad when Tweety bought the bird-farm, but then again, she'd never tell us otherwise...