Word: palming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is cant. Michael Jordan of the U.S. team pretends not to see the basket, then lunges toward it, as if stumbling on the court. Suddenly he leaps, glides, hangs in the air. The ball is cradled in the palm of his hand at the side of his head. Still flying, he flicks his wrist forward, as if waving hello, and the ball sets off on a flight of its own. When the hoop is scored, Jordan is airborne still. Why are we pleased...
...sale-lock, stock and block. The package includes the land under 6,000 private houses, 5 million sq. ft. of factories, 52,000 sq. ft. of office space, 80 miles of roads, 2,650 parking places, two artificial lakes and a shopping mall adorned with live palm trees...
...jazzy architectural stunts. Consider, for example, the firm's Atlantis condominium, an apartment tower with a bright blue grid on one side. Twelve stories up, a huge hole has been cut into the slab. The open-air décor of this "sky court" features a swaying palm tree, a curved yellow wall, a red spiral staircase and a blue whirlpool...
...enough of cynicism!. Now is the summer of all our content. Let a thousand flowers bloom. Get you to your Ukrainian Institute, and you to Wigglesworth Hall. And you enjoy your "Survey of Western Art 1300-Present," and you your "Financial Accounting." And you from West Palm Beach, Florida, meet your roommate from Omaha, Nebraska. May the admissions office choke on that ghastly word diversity, but Harvard Tradition, struggle as we may against it, is sure to bring us all down in the end anyhow. There is Vertias in what this book has to tell us after...
DIED. Arthur H. ("Red") Motley, 83, publisher-president responsible for making Parade magazine the largest and most profitable of the national Sunday supplements; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. A garrulous onetime salesman of zithers and Fuller brushes, he became boss of the five-year-old, money-losing supplement in 1946. By pitching it to newspaper markets in the burgeoning suburbs, he increased its circulation from 2 million to 19 million, under various owners, until his retirement...