Word: pitting
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...Whoever is not shot there is pretty sure to catch it in the saloon, which, like every other set in the picture, has been designed and dressed to look determinedly shabby. The actors wear worn clothes coated with dirt, as if they had all been wrestling in an anthracite pit. Their faces are ever so carefully caked with filth. Reality is swallowed up in such elaborately misplaced attention to detail; the movie looks quite as fussy and phony in its ramshackle posturings as Shane did in its opulent mythologizing...
...match is scheduled to be held on January 22, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica and will pit Foreman, the unbeaten former Olympic gold medalist, against Frazier, the current world champion...
...Heps pit the Ivy League schools and Army and Navy against each other. Among the other potentially strong teams are Princeton-much improved over last year-and Army. The cadets have been struck by sickness, however, and this should limit their free fire power...
...Nothing so useless as yesterday's newspaper? The Minneapolis Star is running full-page house ads declaring that "the Star will work on your yard." Lay the paper flat and anchor it, the ad advises, for erosion control. Or use it as a compost-pit liner: "It is good to have woody material like newsprint decomposing in your soil." Moreover, says the Star, "newsprint ink is like dessert. The ink contains valuable trace minerals in the seaweed-derived binder...
...Instead, the final curtain goes to the triumphant Dr. Miracle, who has just caused the poor Antonia to sing herself to death. In one of the chanciest bits of operatic stagecraft seen in New York in years, Dr. Miracle miraculously pops up on the outer rail of the orchestra pit, towers spectacularly over the conductor, and laughs his final laugh of evil victory...