Stark was a fascinating, fearless, homely woman, made homelier by a ghastly accident suffered at age 12, when her long hair was caught in large, rapidly spinning power wheel in a mill owned by her stepfather.
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But he opened the quarter with a great spinning power dunk, then electrified the sellout crowd at the United Center with his first three-pointer, and followed that up less than a minute later with a four-spot that ignited the kind of frenzy usually reserved for a Michael Jordan special.
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One reason was their reliability, and another was that the cars had fairly good traction in the snow despite their rear-drive design ( partly because the wagons, in particular, had some weight over the rear wheels, and partly because Volvos didn't have a lot of wheel-spinning power back then ).