Word: transcending
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...Olympics do not just provide the amateur athletes of the world the opportunity to bask briefly in the world's attention as they play out their innocent games. By contrast, they give the very nationalism the games are designed to transcend a perfect platform to emphasize the disunity of the world order. What has happened to the 1984 Games happened to the 1980 games. And, if we remember a little further back, we recall that in 1976, 37 Black African nations did not send athletes to Montreal because the International Olympic Committee extended an invitation to New Zealand, which...
...themselves are the problem. The world championships in all the different sports, held in non Olympic years do not suffer from all these maladies they proceed smoothly and non-politically to determine which athletes are the world's finest. The Olympics, which were admirably designed to allow athletes to transcend the petty problems of nationalism, have now irrevocably and unfortunately become the victim of the system that they were designed to rise above...
...trying to transcend the myth of Tarzan, Greystoke becomes more of a three-dimensional National Geographic version of life in the jungle. There are spectacular scenes of the jungle and of country estate life in Britain, to be sure, but there is something essential missing. The characters paradoxically become uninteresting as the actors painfully try to show that they are real people and not stereotypic replicas of the "me-Tarzan, you Jane" genre T. V. e-runs of the old Johnny Weismuller greats still beat Gresstoke--despite the scenery--because they feature a kind of spirit the remake Tacks...
Ellis ended his address, with an admonition that "the ideal can never transcend the real." He added that if a portrait of John Harvard were to come to light, despite Harvard's "chronic poverty" the statue would be melted down and recast. The crowd then watched the unveiling and, according to accounts in The Crimson, "gave three cheers apiece for John Harvard, Mr. Bridge and Mr. French...
...cameo roles, such as Yente the match-maker (Kamala Soparker) and the Rabbi (Peter Reale) are also noteworthy, While both characters are traditional stereotypes, Soparker and Reale put in enough energy to keep them from going state. In fact, the only minor character that does not transcend his stereotype is the Fiddler himself, whose obviously fake board emphasizes his obviously fake fiddling. But since the fiddler mainly appears on the rooftop, or peaks around the corner of the set, he does not direct from the overall effect...