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...psychologically the home court may be a monkey on the host's back. For one, everyone on campus knows you've got the advantage. Your friends know and expect you to win. Your opponent knows and plays with reckless abandon. The door into a squash court may be small and camouflaged, but it's not like you can put on the other team's colors and sneak your familiarity with the courts in through it. There's a lot of pressure playing at home and it makes risks--you've got to take risks to win in squash--more dangerous...
...wise as our own. A scene in which a cadet shows off his skill with an airplane for his sweetheart from the girls' school begins with the wide-eyed enthusiasm of the era, but just a few words later and Freeman is describing the nosedive with modern phallic abandon. Later on, a troubled character exclaims that not even "Professor Freud" could explain his malady. Freeman seems to suggest ironically that perhaps he could...
...Burma men clearly enjoy playing to a friskier audience--even if these fans have to clear out of the club by 5 p.m. There's lot more sneering and growling on stage than at Jasper's--still posing, but with slightly more abandon. "Fame and fortune is a stupid game, I play," Miller bellows at the crowd...
Last week, after investing more than $1 billion, Ludwig, 84 and ailing, decided to abandon his cherished "Jari" project, named for an Amazon tributary that winds through the property. Possibly the largest entrepreneurial effort ever undertaken by one man, Jari had just begun to generate significant cash flows, but they were nowhere near as large as Ludwig had originally envisioned. Jari will now be sold to a consortium of Brazilian banks, insurance companies and industrial groups...
...Saturday, about 100 local anti-war activists protested Reagan's decision to abandon his opposition to registration and continue the program by marching on Washington St. in downtown Boston...