Word: sumo
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...Sumo has always seemed a peculiar sport. Two behemoth-size men in loincloths rinse out their mouths with water, throw salt in a clay ring and ram their massive bodies against each other for a few seconds under the suspended roof of a Shinto shrine. "Mysterious. Religious. Philosophical." That's how retired wrestler Keisuke Itai describes sumo. But if accusations he is making are to be believed, it is a sport that is also full of cheaters...
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY SUMO (works by PHOTOGRAPHY, II Helmut Newton...
...short, Asia will probably not have the same problems over the next two years that it had over the past two, but it is at considerable risk of having different problems. It ain't over until the sumo wrestler sings...
...years I've coveted my neighbor's satellite dish. And while there's no explicit commandment against it, I knew it wasn't good for me to imagine him, smug in his vibra-chair, watching unusual and exotic programming--sumo wrestling from Japan, I bet, or The Larry Sanders Show reruns--while I was stuck with $50-a-month basic cable plus HBO and no pay-per-view. Last week, I'm delighted to say, I found an excuse to get my own direct-broadcast satellite TV. EchoStar, the second-largest DBS provider in the U.S., has just rolled...
...want to be a sumo man," Lim said, referringto the sumo wrestling taking place across thequad. "Then me and my roommate want to beat eachother with padded sticks--it's a good way to getout your roommate aggression...