Word: rakishness
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...women and each against the other. The centerpiece is a duel fought in slow motion by two women who are borne on the shoulders of several supporters and who flay each other outrageously, but at a subaqueous pace. When not engaged in combat, the dancers, some of them with rakish topknots and ) splendidly authentic wrestling gear, mug and glare with a fine appreciation of TV histrionics that never becomes simple mimicry. At a recent performance in Boston, the audience fairly broke up at the sheer bravura of it all. A lot of things contributed to the general satisfaction: shrewd staging...
Larson would go home and write that "you could have mowed the grass with a push mower. Part of the left-field fence had blown down. The dugouts looked more like bus-stop shelters. The bleachers were rickety. And the wind had bent the light poles at rakish angles...
...pilot hurled his rakish craft into a steep and punishing climb, high above the cheering audience and the aeronautics engineers busily jotting notes on clipboards. The plane almost stalled, but it managed to pull level before it swooped back home, scattering the judges as it buzzed their table, ducked under a chalkboard and finally slammed into the bleachers. The scene was not Edwards Air Force Base but Seattle's Kingdome, where fans usually cheer the flight of baseballs and footballs. The prototype was only 10 in. long, and its sortie of 16.26 seconds had just won the time-aloft event...
...QUITE A CAST of characters. Prince Charles and Princess Diana--the fairy the couple locked in endless quarrels. The rakish Prince Philip, disdainful of life in Buckingham Palace. His imperturbable wife, Queen Elizabeth II. The dour Princess Anne, lining up a TV interview to pay for her plane ticket to Australia. The family rogue, Prince Andrew, smuggling porn actresses into the palace when his mother leaves on holiday. Prince Edward, ever dumb and awkward...
When Merton entered the monastery 43 years ago, Roman Catholic religious orders were faithful to the rigorous disciplines of old. A little-known New York writer and teacher whose life had been rakish though not quite dissolute, he converted from irreligion to Catholicism at 23 and stunned friends three years later by joining the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. The monks of Gethsemani lived on prayer, hard manual toil, vegetables and little else. Under the rule of silence, all conversation was forbidden...