Word: lopes
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...great Los Angeles success, so Wooden's methods reached Walton long before Walton reached U.C.L.A. He already knew how to play. At 14, Walton had been a 6-1 guard; by 16, he was a 6-10 pivotman. In the N.B.A., where centers are apt to lope foul line to foul line, he ran base line to base line playing all the positions. "I love almost everything about the game," he says, "the life, the players, the crowds. Just being out there, the competition. I missed...
...genre trappings, Barbarosa is essentially a comedy about friendship; both the humor and the amity are infectious. Australian Director Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) uses his telephoto lens to caress the rugged vistas and visages of West Texas like a melancholy lover. Time-lapse shadows lope across a mountain range, eloquently suggesting the irony of a professional in the twilight of his career. He is too old and lonely to keep playing the boy's game of trying...
...fact, the why is what he thinks about and what he wines about. His continent-crossing is not competitive; he's not the first to lope across the states and has no ambition of going the fastest. And in the end, neither reader nor writer is any closer to the answer to this question...
...just to make sure everyone was satisfied, the team avoided the nastiness of having first, second and third place finishers and instead had the top three runners--freshman Peter Jelley, sophomore Paul McNulty, and junior Bruce Weber--lope in together for a three-way tie. The three clocked a time of 31.18 over the boggish ten kilometers. The Crimson thus acquired the peculiar distinction of having four different runners take firsts after just three races. Only Weber has copped the laurels twice...
...President. The first National Security Adviser was a kind of aide-de-camp to Ike, more clerk than policy planner. But the next thing we knew, he had moved across the street and was in the White House basement, close to the President's communications center, a lope or two from John Kennedy's ear. When we woke up a few months after Nixon's Inaugural, the adviser, in the shape of Henry Kissinger, had claimed the best office in the West Wing at the President's own level. It was a measure of the enlarging...