L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.Byline: -- Tom Hoffarth It's like a scene from the old rags-to-riches-to-rags movie ``The Jerk,'' where Steve Martin Noun 1. Steve Martin - United States actor and comedian (born in 1945) Martin invents a new device that'll keep your eyeglasses eyeglasses or spectacles, instrument or device for aiding and correcting defective sight. Eyeglasses usually consist of a pair of lenses mounted in a frame to hold them in position before the eyes. from slipping off your nose called the ``opti-grab,'' and everyone's cool with it -- until one day, there's this rash of people whose eyes become permanently crossed because of it, and he is wiped out by a class-action lawsuit. Today's NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= is using a new Spalding ball that has no ``opti-grab''' Where once it seemed the league's marketing department was cool after introducing it, and this was going to bring the league a bunch more money in product development, now there's a rash of complaints by players who can't crossover dribble A crossover dribble is a basketball maneuver in which a player dribbling the ball, typically a point guard, switches the ball rapidly from one hand to the other. In a typical example the player heads upcourt, dribbling the ball in (say) the left hand, then makes a wide step left without it slipping out of their hands. Or they're saying that it's too sticky. Or that it just looks too funky. Expect a class-action lawsuit soon. |
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