Word: sport
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There are 13 murders in Titus Andronicus, or an average of about one every twelve minutes. It is an early work (written in 1594), and the poetry is at odds with the fury, rampaging revenge pursued like a blood sport. Director Brian Bedford mitigates the gore, achieving a certain stoic Roman dignity. The drama's chief interest is that it offers embryonic models of characters who would dominate later tragedies...
...opted by this convention, the country's future dims. Amid the anti-Carter rhetoric that can carry the November election, there must be some strands of reason, some sign that conservatives are not uncompromising. This week in Detroit, there have been no such indications. Maybe that's why conservatives sport smiles wide than Carter's 1976 grin. The roots of the slogan, "Together--A New Beginning," are found not in optimism, however, but in intolerance--a profound cynicism about anything classified as non-conservative...
...Russell, the notorious Elvis impersonator, as a stupendous used car salesman anxious to make the grade as a U.S. Senator. Young Kurt is positive that with enough fast-talking, and with his charming good looks, he can fool all of the people all of the time, despite his plaid sport jackets and polyester slacks...
They were the finest tennis players in the world gathered to contest the most coveted prize in the sport. But for the two weeks of the 94th Wimbledon Championships, they resembled nothing so much as disappointed children kept in at recess, staring wistfully from clubhouse windows as the glowering skies dumped near record rains and even a hailstorm on the hallowed courts of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club...
...they came to the tournament as underdogs, only to play brilliantly. Evert Lloyd deposed the reigning champion, Martina Navratilova, 23, and Goolagong stopped the rising star, Tracy Austin, 17, to meet for the crown. But it was Goolagong, playing tennis as though it were a sonata, not a sport, who carried the day. She won the first set 6 games to 1, then held off a gritty comeback by Evert Lloyd to win the final set in a tie breaker...