Word: hula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovered that it had a fantastic bounce. But Bettis Co. was not interested, mostly because the ball tended to fall apart after five minutes. So Stingley took it to Wham O Manufacturing Co. in San Gabriel, Calif., the company that made juvenile history by producing the Frisbee and the Hula-Hoop. For the next year, Stingley and Wham-O worked to make the ball more durable (it is still apt to chip or shatter on rough surfaces), then dyed it purple for no particular reason, fixed a 98? price tag on it, and threw it out to the public four...
...Wham-O, it is simply crossing its collective fingers. Well aware that fads are a sometime thing (where are the Hula-Hoops of yesteryear?), Executive Vice President Richard P. Knerr optimistically comments: "Each Super Ball bounce is 92% as high as the last. If our sales don't come down any faster than that, we've got it made." And if they do-well, that is the way the ball bounces...
...this just great?" crooned the Groaner. "Isn't this just wonderful?"-as a 50-m.p.h. winter gale whipped across California's Monterey Peninsula. One TV tower collapsed completely, and the rest were shaking so badly that the players looked as though they were dancing the Tahitian hula on millions of home TV screens. ("Sorry, folks," the announcer apologized. "We just can't hold the cameras steady.") Arnie Palmer winced with pain as a cloud of sand from the bunkers blew into his eyes. Tony Lema huddled against his caddy for protection from the pelting rain, and Amateur...
...sounds as though Mr. Gordon has just witnessed a badly-done hula. Yet he insists that the plays were "superbly performed." Why this confusion? To my mind it is a result of a fundamental misconception about the nature of theatre. All drama is action; all action is gesture of one sort or another--physical, verbal, and psychological. The way to bring a play to life on stage is to portray as much of its essential action as possible. If plays were merely "words," as Mr. Gordon would seem to have them, what would the point be in performing them...
...HULA BOWL (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Northern v. Southern college all-stars in Honolulu. Taped from previous...