Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps basketball, the main subject of "Hoop Dreams," is the source of its popularity. But this film cannot just be deemed a "basketball movie". Grouping it in a lump with "White Men Can't Jump" would be as much of a travesty as categorizing the engrossing documentary "Paris Is Burning" with the much more shallow "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." More than a basketball movie, "Hoop Dreams" asks questions about social conditions that require our immediate attention. By exploring one subject so intensively, the film manages to transcend itself and delves into issues ranging from domestic violence to drug dealing...
Another area which needs to be restructured is that of tuition collection. Students who are not on financial aid or sponsored by corporations should be offered the option of paying fees in monthly payments across the semester or year, instead of in one lump...
...when you have all that down, you think you'll be prepared, and that when the ball flies towards you, you'll be poised to reach out and snatch that lump of cowhide and stitches in one hand, casually, maybe then uncaringly toss it back like some undersized fish. But when it's never happened before, and Mercker's fastball to Berry is fouled off, and you have but a second to react, calculate and react again...you lunge, desperately, with both hands, and when you catch it you're quickly grateful not to have been cascaded with a chorus...
...cool so detached it could give equal attention to soup cans and electric chairs. But Warhol's indifference was incomplete. There was never an artist more starstruck and money mad. Just three months after Woodstock, in November 1969, he published the first issue of Interview, his monthly that would lump together '40s screen goddesses, lustrous Europeans of vaguely aristocratic background and the very latest shoe designers. By virtue of the fact that Warhol had turned his placid gaze their way, the imprimatur of hip was attached to them...
Mary Stansel worked for only a month as assistant to the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But her severance agreement last November was generous: two lump sums totaling $50,000, six monthly payments averaging about $5,400 each and, if N.A.A.C.P. executive director Benjamin Chavis did not find her a job paying at least $80,000 a year, an additional $250,000. The out-of-court settlement between Chavis and Stansel had remained private and indeed virtually secret until Stansel decided to introduce it into court. Chavis, she said, had not found...