Word: blusterous
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...decision. And now he's the word on everyone's lips. The champion all along. There was never another who was greater. And that's pretty disappointing. No one will ever listen to another word Ali says. The jibes, the taunts, the magnificent insults have at once become ridiculous bluster...
...strong, but so is Frazier. No amount of bluster is likely to deter Smokin' Joe, a raging, bobbing, weaving, rolling swarmer who moves in one basic direction?right at his opponent's gut. A kind of motorized Marciano, he works his short arms like pistons, pumping away with such mechanical precision that he consistently throws between 54 and 58 punches each round. He works almost exclusively inside, crouching and always moving in to slam the body. When the pummeling begins to slow his opponent, when the guard drops to protect the stomach, Frazier tosses a murderous left hook...
...Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name is allowed to shriek and bluster in The Music Lovers. The lovers are Muscovite aesthetes and neurasthenics; the music is supplied by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a doubly tragic figure. In 19th century Russia, where homosexuality was punishable by imprisonment, the composer sought to "cure" himself by marriage. Instead, he became party to an unconsummated charade. But his encounters with other men left him with ineradicable self-disgust...
Considering Harvard's depth, the key matches should be at four and five. At four Crimson captain Ed Atwood will meet junior Chris Werner, "a bluster" according to Sloane, and at five Alain Quasha will face the Ephmen's top sophomore, Bill Simon...
...Bluster...