Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both players have shown a willingness to take the ball to the hoop and have become known for their hustle and aggressive play. Perhaps their play this weekend is a sign of things to come...
...Hula Hoop 1958, by Wham...
...Boise dry cleaner with a hoop in his backyard and a dish on his roof, the prevailing representation of black Americans shifts from highlight-reel dunker to greedy businessperson. He who once had only to ponder the black athlete must now ponder the black man. And where else will he see a black face...
...year-old in East St. Louis, we add, to his unfinished self-portrait of a hoop star with a year of college education and six kids by six different women, a suit and an unflinching desire to be the richest man alive, even if undeservedly so. Where once we acknowledged that NBA players could at least teach youngster the value of hard work, we must now worry that they teach instead the value of avarice...
...occasional bleep of the obstreperous cell phone, the newest sound to be heard in Harvard's lecture halls is the click-clack of knitting needles. While it feels a little absurd to place this activity--formerly associated with hearthside grandmothers--alongside the yo-yo and the hula hoop in the ranks of the truly faddish, it's hard not to notice the conspicuous rise of "chicks who knit...