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...tennis racquet, ball and sneakers: $150-$300, depending on whether you chose Pro-Keds over Reebok super-insolated Andres Jarryd hard-surface court shoes. Price for basketball and sneakers: $40-$100, depending on whether you buy a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar galvanized rubber ball or a Greg Kite reinforced-brick ball...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: You Seldom Whiff in Whiffle Ball | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

...sets are excellent, whether they be the jungle behind the movie screen or the moving grocery shelves. Costumes are also impressive and range from two outfitted baseball teams to the dancing pieces of brick wall. The music, written by Harvard undergraduate composers, works well...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Watching the Dances of the Little People | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

...many dance recitals, there is a patchwork plot tying the dances together. The show follows six children around after school: one runs away from her fighting parents, one strikes out in Little League, one (now, we must make some concessions to this storyline) is harassed by chunks of a brick wall that turn into living beings after she has shined their shapes onto the wall with an overhead projector, two are frightened away by a store with dancing groceries, and one is drawn into the events of a movie he is watching. Naturally, the six dejected children band together...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Watching the Dances of the Little People | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

...equivalent of hitting the broad side of a barn with a brick or catching a softball with a fish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Back | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...Lieut. Colonel John Haynes, an Air National Guardsman from Georgia, was an F-4 "gib" (guy in back) in Viet Nam. He happily recalls "trolling" Haiphong Harbor, hoping to lure out MiGs. Now owner of two evangelical Christian bookstores in Atlanta, Haynes still finds flying magical. "We take a brick, put a little sheet metal on it, add propulsion and cram it into the air," he enthuses. "That's neat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nevada: A Rodeo for Throttle Jockeys | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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