Word: impromptu
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...only serious setback for Harvard on the day came when the weight men dropped an impromptu relay race, by just a bicep, to Princeton...
...first, for the fortunate majority, last week's storm could be taken in good spirits and looked on as a welcome holiday. Cross-country skiers glided through city streets. Fraternity men tossed snowballs at sorority women on Boston's Commonwealth Avenue. Crowds applauded the impromptu performances of jugglers and clowns on Boston Common. At Boston Garden, some 11,000 fans showed up during the storm for college hockey playoffs. Many fans could not get home afterward and, sustained by free coffee and hot dogs, bunked down on the wooden seats...
...seem any thing more than what they are: the extravagant inventions of a spendthrift imagination. Sometimes McHale gives away too much. Sentences often peter out in persiflage: "At the corner of Tremont Street the detective chased off a gaggle of four queens with identical gold earrings who did an impromptu high-kick routine to a rhythm of contemptuous offerings aimed at the crowd of well-dressed and generally middle-aged couples descending the steps of the Shubert Theatre after the last performance who were now loading into taxis and private cars...
...more exuberantly than ever. The faithful throng to gaudy superchurches with 5.000 to 10,000 seats, green shag wall-to-wall carpeting, pit orchestras and Jesus rock bands. From such places the message rolls out, often multiplied many times over on TV programs or projected by satellite to impromptu global parishes of 20 million or more at a time. The message rings out, too, at the early morning pre-work prayer meetings held by businessmen and in the liniment-and-locker-room chapels that seem to have converted half of the players in the National Football League...
...Arson is a barometer of urban decay," says New York City Deputy Chief Fire Marshal John Barracato, "and most city fathers are ashamed to admit they have this problem." But the ruinous dimensions cannot be hidden. In New York City's South Bronx, where Jimmy Carter took an impromptu walking tour earlier this month, there have been more than 7,000 fires in the past two years. "The destruction is reminiscent of the bombed-out cities in Europe," says Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola, who was a navigator in World War II. Chicago's Humboldt Park area...