Word: hooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show's much vaunted stylistic breakthroughs can be overrated. Flashy visuals and rock music on the soundtrack were hardly invented by Miami Vice--or by MTV, for that matter. They have been staples of artfully directed feature films for a couple of decades. "We haven't invented the Hula Hoop or anything," admitted Michael Mann, the show's executive producer and stylistic guru, in an interview with Rolling Stone. "We're only contemporary. And if we're different from the rest of TV, it's because the rest of TV isn't even contemporary...
...basketball team, meanwhile, had been cast as the Ivy favorite for the first time in league hoop's 83-year history, but failed to deliver a first-ever Ivy crown, managing a fourth-place finish and a 7-7 league mark (15-9 overall...
Despite being recruited by national hoop powers after his outstanding prep career, Carrabino--encouraged by Joe, Sr., a UCLA professor--chose Harvard for its academics...
Even with 64 first-round teams, college basketball declared a champion on April 1. The college hoop season started while football was still in full swing, but you don't see college football starting up, do you? No, because it's baseball season...
...promising comics, only to be adjudged on the descent. In Los Angeles, ever the scholar at the University of Southern California, he went on The Gong Show, a sort of television Ship of Fools, and won second place with a trained plant act. (He put a fern through a hoop, shot a plant out of a cannon, sawed a plant in half. An old lady from Santa Monica beat him with a Sophie Tucker impersonation...