Word: sport
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Later in life Poussin would complain of the pressure of commissions. "Monsieur, these are not things that can be done at the crack of a whip," he wrote to his friend and patron Chantelou in 1645, "like your Parisian painters who make a sport of turning out a picture in twenty-four hours." But in his Roman youth, he could and did turn them out, and it would be idle to pretend that all early Poussin is on the same level. Some paintings are much less "finished" than others. A few are hackwork (such as Hannibal Crossing the Alps, done...
...fitness cult may even be growing around ballroom dancing as a contact sport. Some athletes find it a welcome break from grueling training regimens. Former Los Angeles Rams offensive tackle Doug France discovered that "dancing helped my concentration in football." Paul von Beroldingen, a public relations consultant in San Francisco, maintains that "dancing helps my running because it improves my posture, and running helps my dancing because I build stamina -- it takes a lot to get through a cha-cha." Other converts appreciate the discipline and challenge of an activity that cannot be faked. "Ballroom dancing cannot be learned...
...Frank Pinto, a U.S. Navy physician stationed at the submarine base in Groton, Conn., shopping in Flemington is a kind of pre-emptive strike against overpaying. He strides through the Van Heusen outlet, selecting sport shirts from neat stacks. "I planned to stop off here on a trip to Philadelphia," he says, "just to avoid the ungodly markups on clothing at the regular stores...
...SPORT: Setting and settling its season in the West, baseball leaves it to Oakland and Los Angeles to touch the last bases...
scull: to row with two blades. This is as opposed to sweeping, which is with one blade per person. Sculling can be an individual sport. A shell with just one sculler is called a single...