Word: pit
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...heart the walls have not come down, and one side is still fighting the other. The opponents the athletes will face are the same as ever: the climate, the crowd, the knot in the stomach. Even the rule makers: one of the most eagerly awaited contests this year will pit France's ice-dancing Duchesnays -- hometown favorites -- against the limiting regulations of their sport. But that, in a sense, is what the Olympics have always been about: not rules, really, but exceptions...
...does George relent? Because he cares abouthis daughter's happiness. The night after one ofhis typical whining sessions (in which hesuggested holding the wedding at The Steak Pit),he sees Annie asleep on the couch where she hadbeen reading a Modern Bride article on "How toGive a Beautiful Wedding on a Budget." Overcomewith emotion, George begins to read aloud: "Bakeyour own wedding cake...Find a good tailor andcopy a designer dress...Have a friend take thepictures." Horrified, he vows that from thatmoment on, he will "go with the flow." No more ofthis insensitive caterwauling about money. Ofcourse, George...
Just in case you can't get enough of those precious poseurs on American Gladiators, two new copycat challengers are headed for the airwaves. Knights and Warriors will pit villains like Princess Malice and Venom against challengers from health clubs everywhere. In Warriors on Wheels, players in souped-up vehicles will compete in events like Road Kill (shooting at passing targets) and Flights of Destruction (crashing their wheels). Slime Bomb we don't want to know about. Don't look for them...
...Angel of Lightning" -- and has had wings tattooed on his back. Benny also sees himself as the appointed savior of Catchprice Motors. Never mind that his relatives think him fit for nothing but pumping gas. "This is a family business," Benny tells a prospective salesman. "It's a snake-pit. They all hate each other. None of them can sell a car. If you work here, you'd have to work...
...audience at Ghosts, which is being performed during the next three weeks, wearies of the attenuated, ectoplasmic string sounds that emanate rather too frequently from the pit, there is always some action to watch onstage. This show never quits. The marvel is that it has been fashioned out of what would seem to be very awkward, complex material. Corigliano was interested in a story that would include the characters from The Marriage of Figaro as they appear 20 years later in Beaumarchais's play La Mere Coupable. He asked his librettist, William Hoffman, "to create a libretto that...