Word: scowling
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That was why, perhaps, so many competitors spoke of the court -- or the field, or the pool, or the gym -- as the one high clear space where they could be themselves. On the court, no one asked Magic about AIDS; on the court, Michael Jordan could scowl and stick out his tongue. On the field, the Cubans could leave revolutionary issues behind them and let their running speak for itself. On the board or on the bars or between the lines, the questions ended and the answers began. The public arena, before 10,000 spectators and 2 billion viewers...
...feet away from the bustling bakery is the Square's main gathering place for disaffected youth, The Pit, located next to the main T entrance. Some of the leather-clad denizens of The Pit will scowl at you as you walk by. But don't worry about that guy sporting the jacket with "I Kill Summer School Scum!" emblazoned on the back. He probably doesn't mean...
...major mosque just opposite the Tashkent headquarters of the Muslim Religious Board for Central Asia and Kazakhstan, a gaggle of Uzbek teenagers fidget through 2 p.m. prayers while their elders scowl at a visiting photographer. At an elegant medieval-era mosque just outside town, young construction volunteers stop for a farewell word from mullah Kasemi Bey after a Saturday morning of restoration work. Says Kasemi Bey: "The number of believers is growing. Everybody wants to go to Mecca...
QUICKLY we flipped through the preliminary text to the crux of the study, a numerical ranking of the top 25 national universities. Yale was first (the Harvardian grimaced), followed by Princeton (now a scowl). "Harvard College and Radcliffe College" squeezed into the third column...
...factoids about humanoids on steroids. In a world gone synthetic, why should movies offer something as organic as a hero? Welcome, then, to the age of the heroid. In the old days, a - hero like Bogart had brains and guts but also a nagging heart and the seductive scowl of obsession. Often he failed; sometimes he died. He was real: us, with muscles. A heroid, though, is just the muscles. He owes more to comic strips than to romantic or detective fiction. Never really alive, a heroid cannot die; he must be available for the next assembly-line sequel...