Word: hoopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita Guglielmi (Half Sister Clorinda) can make her hoopskirt behave like a Hula-Hoop and still sing is her secret and Ponnelle's. But it is immense fun to watch...
...zeal displayed were directed only at the ball, the game would be played better, and the current madness might be dismissed as an eccentric fad?and boon to retailers?in a class, say, with the Hula-Hoop or Saturday-night mah-jongg. But this is the age of the ME shirt, of instant psychological replay, of backyard Zen and Women's Liberation. With characteristically passionate optimism, American men and women pursue on the tennis court such things as health and ego reinforcement, true love and sexual aggression, social status and a special vision of the good life. "Let's face...
...above description is not from a Harvard varsity hoop contest, but rather a basketball section-meeting of Psychology and Social Relations 1860. "Dr. J.," James McCoy Jones, associate professor of social psychology, offers "Sport, Play and Society," Harvard's only sports-related course...
...none of these things satisfy your craving for sports, there's always IAB hoop action, Soldiers Field softball, or hardball, if you're into that kind of thing...
...Mountain closed to 21-18 with six points from Steve McMahon but Marty Healy came off the bench and made his presence felt. He swiped the ball from a bewildered Jim Clement, who bowled Healy over under the hoop. He sunk his free throws and laid in two more points on a fast break next time down the floor...