Word: hoopes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Their primary skill is putting a round ball through an orange hoop. If no one pays them to do this, they're out of luck (as many baseball players are finding out). Remember Jimmy Jackson's almost-full-season holdout from the Dallas Mavericks...
...soon forget him. You may be bored by basketball, and maybe you don't much care about black kids. But Hoop Dreams isn't mainly about sport, or even about life and death in the inner city. It's about families hanging tough on nerve and prayer. It's about what passes for the American dream to people whose daily lives are closer to nightmares...
...people will dream the implausible dream, especially if they are agile black boys in a neighborhood ravaged by crime, and their only other options are fast-food chef and drug runner. Hoop Dreams, the powerful new documentary by Steve James, Fred Marx and Peter Gilbert, follows two basketball players from the Chicago projects as they pursue their calling through full or partial scholarships to suburban St. Joseph High School, which is a three-hour round trip and social light years away from home...
...that adopting the common application would decrease diversity. We, both as a school and as individuals, pride ourselves on our efficiency; the switch makes the college application process a much more efficient, less time-consuming project for prospective first-years. Why should we require them to jump through another hoop just for the sake of "Harvard...
...answer to a math problem puts the user closer to freeing Spot from the Trash Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with more than 150 challenges to their ingenuity, ranging from launching a toy rocket to shooting a basketball through a hoop. To send up a rocket, a child must find a way to light the fuse. One possibility: using a magnifying glass to focus light rays. Budding authors can use Storybook Weaver, from Minnesota Educational Computing Corp., to create adventure tales. After clicking their cursor on a haunted house or other...