Word: hoop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...junior year in high school, the girls in the Homecoming Court stopped wearing the hoop skirts reminiscent of the Old South because the principal said it was too expensive to rent and dry-clean the clothes. Though some might say that wearing such outfits was a silly custom, I think it is sad that a tradition so evocative of the region's heritage was stopped for such a pragmatic reason...
This heads-up approach got its impetus early in his hoop career when he witnessed the fleecing of fellow Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who lost millions to unscrupulous financial advisers in the 1980s. Johnson dumped his own advisers and started demanding monthly statements from his new ones. He realized that Magic Johnson was a brand name as well as his own, and that he wasn't benefiting from it. So he became the first active N.B.A. player to be a league licensee. "I just kept seeing all these people wearing my T shirts, and I was not getting a dime...
...businessman, Johnson is showing the same kind of all-star potential. The opening of the 12-screen Magic Theatre movie complex next to the flagging Greenbriar Mall in predominantly black southwest Atlanta is the latest deal to establish the former hoop sorcerer as a force in inner-city economic development. Magic movie marquees are going up in Houston and Cleveland, Ohio, and Johnson has announced plans for 14 new multiplexes in 10 other cities over the next two years...
DIED. ROGER BROWN, 54, hoop star dubbed Man of a Thousand Moves who helped lead the Indiana Pacers to three American Basketball Association championships after he was barred from the N.B.A. for associating with a gambler; of liver cancer; in Indianapolis, Indiana...
Harvard opened the game on fire. The team's first scoring came when co-captain Jessica Gelman sliced seemingly effortlessly through the defense and bounced a pass to Black for an easy lay-up under the hoop...