Word: montezumae
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...give advice, evaluate your skill, rate it for future charters, and briskly pull you out of trouble in emergencies-as when, on the third day out, I forgot to watch the course when setting trolls for barracuda and nearly put the Carib on a notorious obstacle named Montezuma Shoal. Otherwise you sail yourself, needing only one friend as crew, and there is no faster way to learn how to handle the stiff, roomy 39-and 41-footers that are the staple of Windward chartering...
...seen over the Sumo wrestler's armpits. By now, the situation had become impossible. The rain was falling even harder, and thousands of water-logged golf fans who had neither seen nor heard of Regalado 30 minutes earlier were cheering wildly, as if he had at last consummated Montezuma's revenge. My prediction had been correct: the 17th had been the decisive hole. But Killer had picked the winner--and he had salvaged my own personal victory over the schlock-slingers in the press tent by giving me his exclusive account of the action...
Thus Peter Martyr, a Habsburg court chronicler and diplomat, greeted the Old World's first exaction upon the New: a stupendous hoard of ornaments, masks and ritual objects cast and hammered from teocuitlatl, "the gods' excrement"-as the Aztecs called gold-which Montezuma had given to the insatiable Cortes. It was shown in Europe in 1519, and nothing from it survives today. Like nearly all the gold artifacts that Spain dragged from the New World, it was melted down for bullion...
Hollywood has never forgiven TV for taking away most of its audience and its income, and every year it exacts a kind of Montezuma's revenge with perhaps the worst TV special of the season-the Academy Awards. This year's show should satisfy all the movie industry's grievances, past, present and future. If anything went right, the faithful TV cameras did not record...
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Montezuma. An opera by Karl Heinrich Graun, an eighteenth-century Prussian, in its American premiere. The anti-imperialist libretto is by Frederick the Great. Tomorrow...