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...Levi- and tee shirt-clad group of young men on the stage is evidently rehearsing for a play: they say their lines and listen as the director shouts advice. But there is something odd about this wholesome-looking bunch: they speak in high falsettos, some swing their hips a la Marilyn Monroe, one wears a luxuriant wig of long, flowing curls...
That was 1980. Now, as another Olympics looms, Lou Vairo watches an even younger bunch of Cinderella kids preparing to skate into Sarajevo in hopes of picking up the other glass slipper...
...America is a continuing legacy of what, until recently, was perhaps the most grotesque aspect of Black life in America: the fact that one's life could at any time be snuffled out at the whim of a white police officer, or some terrorist from the Klan, or a bunch of people who might, just for the hell of it, decide to decorate their trees and telephone poles with Black bodies. This went on everywhere, not just in the South...
...team, customarily dresses as though he lives in a duckblind, but he took off his camouflage when the linebackers put theirs on. The only member in his club (34-year-old running backs who get stronger as they go), Riggins is an honorary Hog but avoids the Fun Bunch. His touchdown spike is the most distinctive in the game: he flips the ball to the nearest official. The ceremony has been performed 29 times this season...
William Hambrecht: Green Thumb. Hambrecht feels a great sense of accomplishment when he picks a bunch of ripe, juicy Zinfandel grapes from his 140-acre vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif., or clips a dazzling orchid in his San Francisco greenhouse. "I like to grow things," he says...