Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should be sick of Michael Jordan. We should send him--his Italian suits, wagging tongue, faint mustache and gold hoop earring--straight back to the '80s where he belongs. This is a guy who's had his own shoe since 1985. Are we still watching Miami Vice and moonwalking and wearing skinny ties? Come on, people. Move...
...speech, Weld compared life to a basketball game, compelling students, "Don't dribble all around the court. Go straight for the hoop...
Beside the hoop-la about Hauser getting tenure (big deal!!) the big stink is about the lecture he gave this Monday. Professor Hauser talked about the minimal effects of marijuana on the brain. He cited an experiment where a spider was given marijuana and the results were such that the spider missed a loop in its web. Bad Boy Hauser concluded, "whatever!" A little later on, Hauser told the crowd of his familiarity with the erotic product store Hubba Hubba. This professional suspects that once a man gets tenure, there's no telling what will happen. Dr. Know suggests Professor...
...More on-screen Cinderellas abide -- and stall -- in Hoop Dreams (1994), a gritty, often wrenching documentary about climbing the athletic ladder in Chicago that got screwed out of an Oscar in 1994 (but what else is new). Teen dream Leo DiCaprio, back when he could act, drives the lane to ruination, via the glories attendant to a ball-playing youth, in Basketball Diaries (1995). Girls: there's a sex scene. Parents: Lots of heroin...
...nights after upsetting top-seeded Stanford to become the first 16 seed ever to win an NCAA Tournament game, the Harvard women's basketball team awoke from its hoop dream...