Word: rubberized
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...Edward III of England banned the sport in 1366 because it was distracting his soldiers from archery practice. Bowling dates back at least to the Pharaohs, although for the first few thousand years, the game remained pretty much unchanged. You rolled a ball made of stone or wood or rubber at a bunch of pins and hoped for the best...
...Hamlet” last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. With no auditions or rehearsals, the students brandished impromptu props like a plastic skull, originally a Halloween decoration, that stood in for “Poor Yorick” and a blown-up rubber glove with a hand-drawn face that impersonated the ghost of Hamlet’s father. Actors drew parts randomly from a bowl, before each scene, to give them the opportunity to play more than one role. In a room laced with glowing Christmas decorations, the actors took the stage in front...
...they have an uncanny resemblance to living creatures—the beak-like pincers, myriad appendage, rubber tubing tail—it’s no accident: next time he sees one of them, it’s drinking water from a river. For the rest of the video, the robot creatures track him through his bedroom, the London Underground, and onto a rooftop, eventually driving him insane...
When he broke into TV in the mid-1960s, on shows like Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan, RICHARD PRYOR--who died last week of a heart attack at age 65--was a cute, rubber-faced young comic with a knack for physical comedy and a childlike sweetness; in one of his earliest bits, he impersonated a band of scared grade-schoolers performing Rumpelstiltskin. Within a few years, he had become America's most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley...
...with that phrase, the Malkin Athletic Center was transformed into a rowdy elementary school gym, ready to play host to the second-ever Harvard Dodgeball Tournament. Light-hearted invective and lewd witticisms flew across the basketball court with as much charge as the seven-inch rubber-covered foam Nerf balls. Tempers rose and egos clashed—but for the second year in a row, athletic prowess and strategy won the day for Dunster House. The tournament, well on its way to becoming a beloved Harvard tradition, offered the chance for each upperclass House, as well as University Hall...