Word: wingo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have. Even if he's one of the 50,000 or so high school phenoms in a year, his chances are only one in 2,000 that he will play NBA basketball. And once there, the kid is more likely to be a bench jockey, a Harthorne Wingo, than an idol-of-millions type like the Detroit Pistons' Isiah Thomas...
...them is Keri Wingo, 17. A senior at Phillips this year, Keri is a bright, motivated kid who goes to school every day. He does not use drugs and is not in a gang. A varsity football and baseball player, he is hoping a scholarship to college will help him break free of the ghetto. "I want to get out of the projects," says the 6-ft. 2-in., 240-lb. lineman and outfielder. "I want to go to college. I want to make something of myself. I don't just want to be another victim of the ghetto...
...movie is as lush visually as Conroy's book is lush verbally. There is something tidal -- that is to say, patiently inexorable -- in its rhythms. And as Tom Wingo, protagonist of all the movies Streisand is sweeping along on the imagistic current she has unleashed, Nick Nolte gives a force-of-nature performance -- shrewd and gullible, bitter and innocent, bigger than life but still in touch with...