Word: romps
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Down 2-5 in the second set to Spain's Tommy Robredo yesterday, James Blake's U.S. Open romp appeared over. Robredo had already won the first set, and Blake, the man who outran the quickest tennis player on earth, Rafael Nadal, in a stunning upset on Saturday, had clay feet on the hard court surface. Blake's best shot, a blazing forehand, was a tad slow. Even his rowdy cheering section in Suite 236 of Arthur Ashe Stadium, clad in baby-blue t-shirts and self-dubbed the "J-Block," seemed a bit deflated...
...through the collection of papers, her cat wanders into the room, stepping on and destroying a few carefully ordered stacks—groups of four roommates that she had spent hours assembling as she culled 550 or so housing applications for the perfect match. The cat’s romp sends her back to step one, and she gathers the papers to rematch the students...
...write with Brando a screen treatment, and then a novel, called Fan-Tan, which is about to be published in the latter form (Knopf; 272 pages) a bit more than a year after the death of the once great actor. The book is being blurbed as a "delectable romp" and as the "last surprise from an ever-surprising legend," both claims requiring some parsing...
...you have a cat, you probably suspect it wants two things: infinite luxury and you gone. In this SpongeBobian romp, a feline trio inherit a fortune from their late owner and indulge their fantasies. In various episodes, megalomaniac Mr. Blik travels to the moon in search of an ingredient for a barbecue recipe, sweethearted Gordon tries to find a unicorn, and ditzy Waffle hunts the world's most wicked mouse. You'll laugh till you cough up a fur ball...
...latest rematch, which began in July and moved from London to Leningrad after twelve games, was at first a romp for Kasparov. After 16 games, he was three wins ahead and seemed so assured of victory that some visiting grand masters packed up and left for home. Suddenly Karpov, drawing on a hidden reserve of strength and taking advantage of blunders by Kasparov, won three games in a row to pull even, 9½-9½. It was an unprecedented string of victories so late in a championship match. "Kasparov is cracking," wrote Vladimir Pimonov, analyst for a Soviet chess journal...