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...attendees to hop on for a ride, Ross was thrown from his perch atop a giant seesaw when his seat suddenly detached from the rest of the contraption. After walking around a bit at the reception, Ross requested medical attention and reluctantly allowed himself to be strapped to a backboard for an ambulance ride to the local emergency room. This action, EMTs assured, was strictly procedure.Despite the ensuing commotion, attendees warmly toasted Reyes for his unique and innovative work. Reyes says that he based the exhibit’s title on his own curiosity about the distinction between what...
...YORK—The basketball court of Kips Bay Towers is an asphalt oasis in Murray Hill, a chain-linked refuge where a scuffed backboard, once pristine white, hangs as a canvas of missed lay-ups and passed time...
...admit that I can all but feel the drizzle of impending adulthood. On my walk home from work, after all, it’s hard to ignore the basketball court that sits quietly downstairs. Vocal in its silence, a filthy backboard invites more than the hope that the coming rain won’t wash our scuff marks away...
...comeback from a seven-point deficit. In the game’s final seconds, however, it was a Lenny Collins miss that sealed the Crimson’s fate, as the Cornell senior forward’s winning bid from the left baseline hit off the side of the backboard and caromed right into the hands of forward Jason Hartford. Left uncontested beneath the basket, Hartford put back a shot that hovered on top of the rim for a split second before falling through the hoop, giving Cornell (9-11, 4-2 Ivy) a 79-77 lead with 2.4 seconds...
...King, a burly man in his late 30s whose face is sun-red from his cap line down. King is less troubled by the capsules in his land than by a rabid skunk in the area that might threaten his children, and by a raccoon that commandeered the basketball backboard over the garage and will not back off. Besides missiles and Air Force personnel, King's 5,000 acres contain spring wheat and fallow land in alternating green and brown stripes, a crop of oats, malting barley, a sleepy horse, a donkey and a 60-mile view extending...