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...Grunfeld. Then Checketts met with ex-Bull coach Phil Jackson about taking Van Gundy's job next year. At last week's clinching game against Atlanta, fans chanted Van Gundy's name in a defiant gesture of support. He needs it. The guy looks like the most bitter and broken-down thirtysomething not to have worked for the Clinton Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knicks' Shooting Spree | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Struggling with tiny grates and dusty fireplaces, the boys in the Yard lived in cold and uncomfortable conditions. Their creature comforts were not Venetian mirrors and chaise lounges, but broken-down furniture and a Harvard pennant...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: The GOLD Coast | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...other hand, every big-league hitter knows that sometimes you have to lay off a pitch. That's the case with "Major League (1989), a minor-league effort that features Tom Berenger as a broken-down Cleveland Indians catcher, Rene Russo as the Woman He Loves, and Bob Uecker as, well, Bob Uecker. How bad is this film? "How's your wife and my kids?" is the best line of the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Potato Game | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...executive would do if one of his shows came under fire. "If I was a creative person in Hollywood, I would be packing up my bags and heading for Nevada," Valentine declared. "In a city that has a host of social problems, including crime and poverty, potholes and a broken-down transit system, one would think the vast power of the city council could be put to better use than analyzing UPN's Monday-night schedule." Still, in an attempt to defuse the flap, the network yanked the pilot and substituted an episode titled "Abe Online," which depicts the Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumb and Dumber | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...before moving to Rimini, he lived in neighboring Jefferson County, where he at first stayed in a broken-down cabin in exchange for caring for the owner's many dogs. He made a habit of harassing the local sheriff and his deputy, complaining they were incompetent. In 1983, according to undersheriff Tim Campbell, Weston began saying that Campbell and his brother were covering up an abduction of a four-year-old girl. Campbell does not have a brother. Weston was probably retaliating for being questioned in the case. He was then living about 2 1/2 miles from where the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder In The House | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

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