Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives are black and blue. Hector Babenco's Pixote (Portuguese slang for peewee) is an eleven-year-old São Paulo waif living his long days in a kind of Dotheboys Hall for juvenile offenders. In another school, pleasing the older boys might mean carrying the water bucket; here it involves stashing dope, spearheading escapes and, above all, keeping his big dark eyes open and his mouth shut. The film is canny enough to reveal the horrors of underage incarceration in Brazil before it turns Pixote and his comrades loose on a jag of snatching purses, rolling drunks...
During the next four minutes, neither the Crimson nor the Eagles were able to take advantage of the other's offensive impotence to nail down the win. So when B.C. hoopsters Jane Haubrich and Kerry Murphy each looped in a bucket with less than a minute to go--putting their team in the lead, 42-38--the Crimson did not have enough time to dump in two tying baskets. Freshman forward Wendy Joseph pocketed a two-pointer with nine seconds remaining, but Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder had depleted her allocated timeouts for the game, and the Eagles simply...
...China Sea. Behind him the junk bobs crazily in the harbor, giving an idea of how it must have rolled in open swells. His fellow refugees huddle together on the pontoon, staring straight ahead, as if posing for a formal family photograph, and sipping water from an orange plastic bucket passed from hand to hand. Three women group under a tent made of shirts to keep the sun off. They pay no attention to the gawkers in fresh-painted yachts who swing close by for a look. A woman nurses a baby so small it can be mistaken...
Clay Neville stole the show at half-time, when he stepped casually to the mid-court line, took a deep breath, and then heaved a 50-ft. overhand banker into the bucket--good for two points and a three-day trip for two to Bermuda...
Trailing, 57-56, before the foul, Harvard was down by five at the end of the four-point play--which consisted of the disputed bucket and two technical free throws--with seven minutes left...