Word: baskets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend asks her to play basketball for the school. She has no female role models for this, so James Worthy, the Los Angeles Laker star, becomes her role model. "I loved James," she says, "because he was the player other players would go to when they needed a basket." Senior year in high school she scores 101 points in one game. In a single half. She learns how to dunk. She is signed by Wilhelmina Models. She is named to the U.S. Olympic team. And now Lisa Leslie is a role model...
...swim team one more time, and is headed to her third Olympics. "And last!" she says, laughing. "That's it, finished!" Next year she's going to law school. She's going to get serious about running and try the Los Angeles Marathon just for fun. (A basket of ripe sweat socks to the reader who guesses how close to the women's marathon record of 2:21.06 she will clock on her first try; the guess here is 2:32.) Maybe, she says, she'll try some journalism; communications was her major at the University of Southern California...
...last of them, his unfinished The Large Bathers, 1906, one sees the characteristics that have always rendered these peculiar arcadian scenes difficult to love even as they compel admiration and even a certain awe. This group of 14 stock nudes gathered around what must have been a picnic basket is as resolutely antisensuous as an assembly of naked women could possibly be. Some of them look like seals stranded on rocks. Others are lumpish giantesses. None were painted from actual models because, as his friend the painter Emile Bernard recalled, "he was the slave of an extreme sense of decorum...
This renaissance was highlighted in Harvard's 81-79 thriller over New Hampshire. As was the case against George Washington, Harvard had the game's final possession and needed a basket...
According to the March 22 Crimson, when Buckeye guard Paul Huston scored a basket just after the final whistle that would have given Ohio State the requisite 10-point victory, "thousands of pluggers went berserk...