Word: messieres
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Wretched excess comes in many forms. Theologians distinguish the excess called avarice--the sheer, mean taking and hoarding of things--from the excess called prodigality, which is a messier and more full-blooded fault, a form of generosity, almost, but one that has come unhinged. Ideally, world-class plundering should try to pay its way as entertainment. The Romans had a genius for transforming loot into colossally vulgar display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this...
...didn't expect it [the game] to be as close as it was, and it probably shouldn't have been," Delaney Smith said. "Once we got sloppy, we started thinking about our mistakes, and that caused us to get even messier--we're really not that kind of a team...
...shares with Bird, although the Celtics' captain dislikes the pregame socializing and the community arguments only captains are permitted to wage with the referees. "It's true," Gretzky agrees, "the fans think you're arguing for yourself all the time, but it's great. Here, Kevin Lowe, Mark Messier and Paul Coffey take charge too. It's fun to be champions...
...equation will become messier if Hart challenges the credentials of what he estimates to be 500 to 600 Mondale delegates elected with the help of contributions from political action committees (PACs). Mondale last week promised to establish a $400,000 escrow account to repay the PACs. It is almost inconceivable that the convention will rule that the delegates should be taken away from Mondale. But Democrats, who want to portray the Reagan Administration as ethically lax, are not eager for a nominee with a small "sleaze factor" of his own. Also disquieting was the revelation last week that Mondale gets...
Accompanying Gretzky, the Oilers do have talent in unusual abundance: Kurri, Mark Messier (an all-star without benefit of ever playing on Gretzky 's line), Glenn Anderson, Paul Coffey. All of them are trying to perform at the level of Gretzky. He lifts them. Says Kurri: "It's very surprising to me that I'm playing with Wayne Gretzky and second in the scoring lead. But he plays up here, and so I try to play up there too. We don't mind losing some attention to him and his rec rds because he does...