Word: juke
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...took a 30-26 lead into the locker room. Lackner drained a three in the first six seconds of the second half to extend the lead to seven.The Crimson fans rose in thunderous applause with less than six minutes to go as Hallion split the defense with a deft juke and rolled in a layup to push the advantage to 58-43, essentially sealing the Ivy title. The cheers continued through to Knox’s two free throws to end the onslaught.Following the game, each member of the team ascended the ladder for the traditional net-cutting ceremony...
...venerable Madden football series for Nintendo's new hardware. He sees the controller from the auteur's perspective, as an opportunity but also a huge challenge. "Our engineers now have to decipher what the user is doing," he says. "'Is that a throw gesture? Is it a juke? A stiff arm?' Everyone knows how to make a throwing motion, but we all have our own unique way of throwing." But consider the upside: you're basically playing football in your living room. "To snap the ball, you 'snap' the remote back toward your body, which hikes the ball," Schappert says...
...editor, over her release of previously unpublished poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, calling the manner of Quinn’s editing and publication “reprehensible.” According to The New York Times, Vendler’s scathing review of “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments” in the April 3 issue of The New Republic marks a “literary clash of titans.” “The real poems will outlast these, their maimed and stunted siblings,” Vendler wrote about this...
...upmarket myth linger before tatty reality rubs it out? The legend of old Broadway-when stories of poor boys winning the hearts of rich girls served as metaphors for the irresistibility of American ambition, and debonair stars introduced songs that instantly found a spot in the everyone's internal juke box-is a good half-century out of date. No #1 Billboard hit has come from a Broadway musical since Judy Collins' "Send in the Clowns" from the Steven Sondheim A Little Night Music in 1973. No Broadway musical has put a bunch of its tunes...
...place definitely has its own unique charm, and evokes a Chicago juke joint in its sparseness: brick walls hung with black-and-white photos, and head-scrapingly low ceilings. All that’s missing is the pall of cigarette smoke, and it’s not too sorely missed by most...