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...Michael Jordan's playoff performance. For the most spectacular play by an individual, Jordan wins easily. With nothing left to prove in the NBA, with a one-way ticket to Springfield, Ma. already secure in the near future, Jordan nevertheless took his game to new heights. He set a playoff record by averaging over 40 points a game while driving his Bulls to a third straight NBA title. And in the process, he secured his position as the best athlete ever to play the game...
...national spotlight with the pressure of countless teammates and fans hoping and praying for victory, calmly sent the ball sailing through the uprights into the opening arms of Touchdown Jesus. So there you have it. A taste of what 1993 had to offer. There were amazing upsets, fantastic finishes, spectacular individual and team efforts, touching tributes, and most significantly inspiring stories. Let's hope 1994 can bring much of the same...
Just two weeks after his spectacular transformation from obscure buffoon to Russia's most notorious politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky decided to take a little vacation. His idea of a good time: a riotous road trip through Central Europe, hobnobbing with a German right-wing firebrand, skiing in the company of an Austrian Waffen-SS veteran and, in virtually every place on his itinerary, behaving in ways that tend to get ordinary people thrown out of bars. But in Zhirinovsky's case, he was given the bum's rush from entire countries. Back in Russia at week's end, the nationalist demagogue...
...Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema (Morrow; $15). Here's a fine choice for a book-loving older child. The story Dickens lived was as dramatic as any he wrote, and the literate text of this fascinating biography deals gently but firmly with his chaotic childhood and disastrous marriage, his spectacular success and the appalling condition of the poor. Detailed illustrations bring 19th century England to life for the young time traveler...
...growing a passionflower vine along one wall of the room and said that "it has a really spectacular bloom...