Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Northeastern is not Harvard's fiercest competition, it was a fun way for the Crimson to warm up for a big meet this weekend at Princeton...
...valedictory tour around the circuit, too often immersed in memories rather than the task at hand. The rigid fat-free diet, the weight training for strength and the basketball drills for agility have only stayed, not stopped, the passing years. Navratilova at her best is still the fiercest force in what looks like a sport of grace but is in truth one of intimidation. These days, though, her best comes on single shots or at most single games. Martina can no longer play a Martina match. The woman who once won 54 straight matches, lost one, then won 74 more...
...toting youth gangs. While the A.N.C.'s top echelon is mostly moderate, almost 50% of its 1 million rank-and- file members are in the militant camp. If reforms begin to slip and there is no tangible progress in a year or so, Mandela may find his fiercest challenger is his fiery, camouflage-clad wife. "Winnie," says Tom Lodge, an authority on South African political movements, "is an instinctive populist. She will tell the masses what they want to hear...
...films replace the common fan's rooting interest for the home team -- just a geographic accident really -- with moral superiority. They are not just our guys, they're good guys; in some of these pictures, the fiercest competition is about which character gets to display the highest level of insufferable righteousness. "Sports movies always draw a contrived moral," notes film critic Andrew Sarris. And that moral is: the person who wins is always the better person. "But there is no moral in real sports," Sarris says. "Somebody wins, and somebody loses, and that's it. I watch all kinds...
...subtlest and most daring, Eric Bogosian, does that and more. A sometime playwright, he creates characters related by theme, in skits that never peter out. At his fiercest, he confronts audiences with the daily ugliness they try to screen out, from deranged bums urinating in the subway to drug freaks convinced that violence is the answer, whatever the question is, to smug suburban successes siring second families who want only to forget their offspring from Wife...