Word: balling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have him finally reject the behavior of his friends. The ending establishes this conclusively: in the park, returning from his unsuccessful attempt to find and photograph the corpse, he sees the white-faced youths standing around a tennis court, watching two of their group "play" tennis with an imaginary ball and imaginary rackets. The "ball" is knocked over the fence and the group looks toward the photographer to retrieve it. He hesitates momentarily, then picks up the the imaginary ball and throws it back into the court. He watches the pantomime, hearing the sounds of an actual tennis match...
Unfortunately, Blow-Up is just ambiguous enough that one's interpretation of it depends largely on how one interprets the tennis game; when the photographer returns the illusory tennis ball he is not giving up hope and joining the revellers. The tennis game ending, like the five minute montage that ends Eclipse, is less a new scene than a visual synopsis of the events preceding it, most specifically the murder. The slow camera-panning back and forth following the imaginary ball refers to the panning back and forth along the blow-ups; the photographer is again faced with a situation...
Watching Barth Royer popping from the outside, Jeff Grate frequently stealing the ball and driving down the middle, and Gustavson making 11 out of 12 from the line in the second half, the small gathering of IAB fans wondered, "What has this team been doing until...
...Dave Scholz; with his 6-in. height advantage, Lew simply fired away at will-often not bothering to jump. Loyola of Chicago's Coach George Ireland tried a "collapsing" defense in which as many as three players converged on Alcindor every time he got the ball. Alcindor blocked at least ten shots, pulled down 20 rebounds, and scored 35 points, including two on a spectacular backward "dunk" shot-whirling, leaping, reaching up over his head, ramming the ball through the hoop from behind. Score: U.C.L.A. 82, Loyola...
...Oregon football jersey with No. 70 on the back, he works out with weights for three hours (he can lift 600 lbs.) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; on alternate days he spends two hours throwing the shot in the basement of the Oregon gym, bouncing the plastic ball off a wall 55 ft. away. "And I'm forever knocking out the light bulbs in the ceiling," says Neal, "but they keep replacing them, so I keep on throwing...