Word: pit
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...second half was much shorter than the first half for some reason. Only one interesting thing happened. Some old guy who had been sitting in a pit under the stands stormed out of his hole all of a sudden and walked onto the field. He said a couple of things that I couldn't hear to some guy standing on a little hill in the middle of the field (I could never understand why he stood there--right where he was most likely to be hit in the head with one of the pucks), who is called the guard. Anyway...
Addressing supporters in Houston yesterday, Bush said his victory showed voters realized that he, not Reagan, is the only Republican able to defeat Carter in the general election. The Pennsylvania primary pit Reagan against Bush without other Republicans for the first time this year...
...spared in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's seven-hour misty epic, Our Hitler, least of all the audience. Syberberg seeks to resurrect Hitler and pit him against the world he left behind--a filmic judgment day for Der Fuhrer--and the audience is forced to look into its own eyes. Confusion. No connections. No conclusions. "The results are exhilarating, confounding, and not at all closeended," critic David A. Rosse from the University of California at Berkeley, correctly pointed out. Ultimately, your judgment of Syberberg's Hitler hinges on how you judge your most intimate self...
Hitler reappears later after he sinks back into Wagner's grave. He is a puppet. A mannequin. A marionette. A ventriloquist's doll. "Is this the world you pit against mine?" he asks. "In the United Nations, 110 out of 159 countries torture and murder, so each time the U.N. votes, a purely democratic majority votes for inhumanity. Without the extinction of the Indians, the progress in America would have been impossible. I am immortal as long as the world exists," he says, as the ventriloquist undresses him through a series of suits and costumes. "Well done...
...Crimson's next encounter will pit the varsity eight against Princeton in the annual Compton Cup race next Saturday in New Jersey. Harvard hasn't lost the Compton since 1962, and the Tigers--losers to Navy earlier this year--stand little chance of reversing the trend this year...