Word: functioned
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Although an international athletic meet is the most obvious function of the Games, it is the least important one. Other meets occur far more frequently than the Olympics. These meets will continue, whatever happens to the Olympics; and, even if they didn't, sport fans could still rate athletes against each other by comparing their record performances. The events, purely as athletic phenomena, gain little but imagery by being conjoined in a mass spectacular. The athletes don't jump higher, swim faster, or run more quickly. Instead of looking so much to the Olympics for outstanding performances, observers should look...
...Olympics serve also at least as a titular celebration of amateur athletics. As amateurism has fallen almost entirely into abeyance, however, this function means less and less. All athletes, to gain the quality necessary to compete in modern Games, must live for their sport. They must, in some way, gain their support from it, either as students in Western countries or as "soldiers" in Eastern ones. And when the most successful of these athletes can look forward to special rewards after their playing days are over, like the Kellogg's advertising contract awaiting skater Eric Heiden, then they are pros...
...love you if you marry me.' The man always has to pay, but with all that pushing away, he persists. It's persuaded me that men want women more than women want men." To Friday, fantasies are not just inner movies that add spice to sex. Their function is to deal with the mix of frustration, love and rage that men feel toward women. Says Friday: "At least for a sexual moment, magic is called in, reality altered, the perceived nature of woman changed and the conflict is healed...
...large pre-ovulatory eggs. But there are cyclic variations in behavior and egg size in these reptiles, and roles reverse; the passive female of one encounter can be the active partner of the next. Says Crews: "We are now trying to determine whether this malelike behavior facilitates reproductive function." Translation: the psychobiologist does not yet know why the females mock the male-female behavior of related two-sex species. The eggs hatch with or without the lesbian courtship...
...point. "I don't know of any headaches right now," said the man who is the minister of a tiny (91-member) United Methodist Church. "I'm convinced that everything is as well set up as it can be. If we maintain our flexibility, it should function fine...