Word: sparring
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...launched missile system, which involves at least ten advanced subs with 24 missiles each. Both sides are expected to spend heavily on observation satellites to detect any cheating by the other. They can also spend heavily, if they wish, on new nuke-carrying bombers. As both nations continue to spar for technical advantages, no immediate savings in weapons costs are expected...
...these characters, the bar is a spar to which they cling in the shipwreck of existence and over which they confess their hidden better selves. These confessional arias are what they have always been in Williams, eloquent trib utes to the English tongue and moving explorations of the human spirit. This is not to say that Small Craft Warnings is on a par with the durable canon of his finest plays. Here he reminds us of the size and scope of his genius, but dis plays it diminuendo. Call this then a five-finger exercise from...
They act out the roles of their parents and worry aloud about sex; they spar with each other, alternately reassuring and shattering the fragile defenses their comrades have constructed...
...Marchand) is a cool and predatory school superintendent who seems to have frozen into her post. Anna has been involved in some vague sexual incident with a boy at her school, and Ceil has shown up with the papers to have her committed to an asylum. Catherine and Ceil spar on the subject, and the strange life they led with their divorced mother is dredged up, but nothing changes substantially. What should be show-and-tell is mostly tell-and-tell...
None of which bothers Muhammad Ali one whit: "Humph! Bob Foster, a li'I ol' 188-pounder. Now ain't that something! I wouldn't even spar with a man that size. But the press and the bookies are shoutin' 'Who-e-e-e! Joe Frazah knocked him out, knocked him dead!' What they should have done is look what I did to Oscar and what Oscar did to Joe Frazier. All Oscar did was to knock Joe Frazier down twice in their first fight and then whip his face so bad that his eyes were swollen closed. And when...