Word: olympian
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...She’d be like, ‘Go on! Smack on another 45,’ and I’d be trying to impress the big Olympian going ‘Yeah! Woo! I’m hardcore,’” Corriero says. “And like I can’t fit into any of my jeans anymore, I’m like dammit...
Marlowe’s script adheres closely to Virgil’s original text in the Aeneid, beginning with the political and sexual squabbles of the Olympian gods in the aftermath of the Trojan War, in which Venus, mother of Aeneas, favored the Trojans while Juno aided the Greeks...
...that loss, Big Green coach Mark Hudak rested Olympian Cherie Piper after she gritted out an appearance against Harvard the night before...
...decades, saw two things: the Univac brain, riffling through the comic possibilities as he listened to his guest, and an instant later ejected the perfect bon mot; and his distance from the action, as if he were watching the show and himself from some Olympian aerie, where it was always cool. Tynan writes of Carson appraising the other guests at a party, "his eyes twinkling like icicles." It was what we know, from Carson's avatar Letterman, as Midwestern cool: ingratiating but withholding...
Turn on a footballgame, and you'll see cheerleaders with seam-popping breast implants, aging sportscasters with suspiciously tenacious hairlines and commercials for pills that promise Olympian erections. Turn on the news, and you'll hear about how athletes have got the notion that it's O.K. to use artificial substances to improve their bodies. Appalling! Where would they get an idea like that...