Word: round-robin
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Without dialogue, plot, or development, the monologues soon become tiresome and cliched. Patrick cannot sustain tension in this round-robin of self-revelation. He reveals more and more of each character, but he merely brings surfaces into finer focus, never taking us into the souls of the characters. The final speeches are searing, but we cannot empathize: by this time the characters have deteriorated into stereotypes capable only of synthetic emotion...
...Harvard women's volleyball team swept its way to the Region I Provisional Championship at a six-team round-robin tournament at Holyoke Saturday...
While the ceremonies were going on and the surging thousands were chanting their names, Presidents Nixon and Sadat were getting down to some hard bargaining that went beyond what their advisers had anticipated. First, they agreed to try to set up a round-robin of talks between the U.S., the Soviet Union and the various Arab countries before going ahead with full-scale discussions in Geneva aimed at reaching a general peace in the Middle East. Israel would not participate in the preliminary talks...
...finals will be run as a round-robin competition with each fencer facing every other fencer at some time during the two days of bouting...
...teams in Harvard's division advance to a round-robin tournament, and the tournament's winner then goes on to the national championships in California. Palm said he was optimistic about the team's chances. "Although Springfield is guaranteed a playoff spot, we have beaten Wentworth and think we can beat Yale to make the playoffs...