Word: unlikeliest
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...teams from above the timber line playing in domed stadiums of spaceship sterility on synthetic carpets that made the games look like Brobdingnagian billiards. Only one contest was close all the way. Only one rooting interest tickled fans' fancies: seeing the Twins earn their spot in baseball's unlikeliest finale...
...Supreme Court nominee was "in the closet," Limbaugh said, "I think any of us would be safer in a closet with Judge Souter than we would be in an automobile with Ted Kennedy." Any member of the Kennedy family is vulnerable to Limbaugh's scorn, and in the unlikeliest contexts. Last week Rush noted that accused murderer-cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer would plead innocent by reason of insanity. "That's like finding William Kennedy Smith guilty of rape," he opined, "and then having a trial to see if he was horny...
...lenders don't feel any better knowing they have mainly themselves to blame for this fix. Through much of the '80s they were tripping over one another to offer generous terms for even the unlikeliest projects. "In the madness of that decade, many hotels were overfinanced and overleveraged," says Bruce Batlin, a partner with the consulting firm Pannell Kerr Forster. "A lot of hotels are in trouble because of that...
SWEENEY TODD. Stephen Sondheim's unlikeliest musical, a sympathetic look at a murderous barber and the woman who recycles his victims as meat pies, returns to Broadway in a shrewdly staged chamber version...
SWEENEY TODD. Stephen Sondheim's unlikeliest musical, a sympathetic look at a murderous barber and at the woman who recycles his victims as meat pies, returns to Broadway in a shrewdly staged and highly tuneful chamber version...