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This brings to mind a scene from the movie Soul Man, which illustrates this point brillantly. Two white kids, captains of pick-up basketball teams, argue over who gets to pick a Black who has just strolled into...
...worked at his school's radio station, playing a combination of classical and local new wave music; he says he would like to get involved with WHRB when he arrives in Cambridge. And, while he freely admits that he is not "Mr. Sportsman", he says he does enjoy a pick-up game of basketball every now and then, and says he might even like to join an intramural team. McAlester says, at this point he is unsure what he will concentrate, but says that French history or literature might be an option...
Although the training room is primarily a place for medical attention, some athletes say they go there for other reasons. "It's the social center of the team," says women's soccer player Tenley E. Stephenson '91. "In the fall, it's a total pick-up scene...
...Cloud 9 can be said to have a plot--a mighty big "If"--it exists only to carry the play from the jokey sex scene or pick-up scene to the next. Every character is to some degree obsessed with sex. The problem is that the characters are at the same time confused about their sexual identities. Some are secretly homosexual or bisexual, some are secretly adulterous, some secretly share one or more of these traits and some display them openly. To further confuse things, some of the actors and actresses cross-dress to play people of the opposite...
After a scuffle occurred late in the final period that sold out the penalty box for the rest of the game, Harvard and Michigan State started to play a game of pick-up hockey...