Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Harvard men sometimes pretend that they attend Wellesley. In 1939, a Harvard student dressed up as a girl and entered Wellesley's annual hoop rolling contest. In the race, members of the Wellesley senior class determine which one will marry first by rolling old-fashioned wooden hoops. The Harvard...
...What's the MVP," Ellison asked beautifully, "when you've got the national championship?" Not since the '50s and Bill Mlkvy, Temple's renowned "Owl-Without-a-Vowel," has basketball identified a hero as charmingly as "Never Nervous" Pervis. At the same time, not since UCLA and John Wooden have a team and a coach been as consonant as the University of Louisville and Denny Crum...
...Wooden, Crum both played and coached for the retired architect of ten National Collegiate Athletic Association championships, including every one of them from 1967 to 1973. When Crum left UCLA for Louisville 15 years ago, his avowed plan was to win enough games so that, upon Wooden's valedictory, he could return to a complete acclaim. The winning has come easier than the acclaim...
...with its strangeness and resistances, is quite alien to the pharaonic prettiness of his art. Of the structure, weight, pathos and energy of the human body he has no sense at all, and one result is his inability (shown in paintings like His Behind the Back Pass, 1979, two wooden Frisbee players on a lawn) to do a simple figure in movement. His colloquialisms let him down; arms become sticks, hands a mere bunch of squarish twigs, feet relate badly or not at all to the ground, while faces, most of the time, are little more than masks...
Bobbing and dipping above the heads of the crowd of 50,000, the plain wooden coffin was borne through the narrow streets of Nablus, the largest town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At the front of the funeral procession, among mourners with drums and cymbals, fluttered the black, white, green and red flag of the Palestinians. Groups of youths, their faces hidden by kaffiyehs, flashed the V sign. Here and there among the hundreds of black-bordered portraits of the dead man were pictures of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The deceased: Zafer al Masri...