Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thank you for mentioning fencing at all. It is far from a sissy sport, no matter how it may look in pictures. I could still take a football player for an hour's workout, and he wouldn't be able to walk stairs comfortably the next day. BURKE BOYCE...
...shot by Sportswriter Charles Parmiter, who was exploring the rugged hunting and fishing possibilities in Costa Rica's jungle (see SPORT). At the time, he thought he was bagging a jaguar. Back in New York, a taxidermist told him it was an ocelot. Well, it could happen to any sportswriter...
...hours that follow, she is all but the whole show. Funny Girl is a biographical evening about the late Fanny Brice, and ostensibly Barbra Streisand is re-creating her rise to fame and her ill-starred marriage to Nicky Arnstein, the gambler-sport. But Streisand establishes more than a wellrecollected Fanny Brice. She establishes Barbra Streisand. When she is on stage, singing, mugging, dancing, loving, shouting, wiggling, grinding, wheedling, she turns the air around her into a cloud of tired ions. Her voice has all the colors, bright and subtle, that a musical play could ask for, and gradations...
...among Europe's silk-hosed aristocrats, fencing never really caught on in the leather-stockinged American colonies. "When the settlers came to America," explains Ed Lucia, a top U.S. fencing coach, "they came with an ax, not with a sword." Even today many Americans consider the sport effete-incorrectly, for swordsmanship throughout history has been equated with valor, stamina, agility. Fencing is still dominated by the swordsmen of Europe. Frenchmen have won individual foils in seven of the last 13 Olympic competitions. Italian Olympians have won the last six individual épée gold medals; even more remarkable...
...Well-Tempered Blade. Nonetheless, fencing in the U.S. today is a fast-rising sport. Thanks to the electrified blade point, which causes a light to flash when contact is made, scoring is no longer a matter of subjective judgment. The loud cries and balletic fencing that often influenced judges has given way to rough-and-tumble dueling that demands physical conditioning as tough as any football player's. Princeton's would-be D'Artagnans start training each day with five 220-yd. laps around the gym and 15 rugged minutes of calisthenics. Then, after a 20-minute...