Word: hooping
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...HOOP IT UP Those looking to add a little play to the work of a fitness regime can sign up at a gym for hula-hooping classes with specially weighted hoops...
...changes with a grain of salt,” said Lulu Wang ’06. “The things that they change, they may think is working out for the best, but all in all I don’t think it ever stops being just another hoop that you jump through...
Whatever the level of artistry or popular appeal, the documentary is no longer ashamed. "When Hoop Dreams came out in 1994," recalls director Steve James, "it hid the fact that it was a documentary." Sheila Nevins, who oversaw the excellent America Undercover series for HBO, concurs. "When we started," she says, "we used to try to not call our programs documentaries for fear the public would run away from it. Now we can't wait...
...infidel." The second tape shows a group of 15 uniformed men practicing advancing under fire in a lush grove of trees and tall grass. In another scene, recruits navigate an obstacle course that requires them to climb stairs, crawl under barbed wire and dive through a flaming hoop...
...warrior, a god. I have built civilizations and seen others toppled at my command. I have colonized planets, built starfleets. I have killed, and I have plundered. I have died and been resurrected. Parades have been thrown in my honor, fireworks set off. I have jumped through every hoop in these algorithmic mazes, satisfied every goal conceived of and coded by pajama’d malcontents, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. But what has it all given me? How have these hours and days of absorption affected the way I experience reality off the screen...