Word: sporting
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...stable training craft to detailed scale planes that replicate the real thing. They weigh from 10 lbs. to 125 lbs. and cost anywhere from $350 for a basic set to more than $4,000. There are gas-powered planes (more powerful but noisier) and newer electric ones. There's sport flying (for the fun of it) and competition, as well as combat flying, float flying (above water) and pattern aerobatics...
Televised baseball, especially in big games that are the sport's full carnival, offers an individualism of faces, closeups of intense privacy (pitchers thinking, scratching themselves, anguishing, waving off the sign, spitting, trying to deliver a ball very hard from mound to plate with precision, as if a neurosurgeon were hurling darts 60 feet down a hospital corridor at a patient's neocortex). The spectacle has something in common with a bullfight - matador on the mound, bull at the plate, multitudes eating and drinking and whooping in the stands in a tableau of casual, ceremonious pageantry...
Consider the student body, striving in our various ways for the marks of achievement: the callouses, muscles, patterns of speech, gestures and language whose presence belies an intimate familiarity with our subject, our sport, our ideology and our passion. We search and less often find that edge where practice gives way to creation. And these strivings expose a side of beauty much deeper and more personal than perfect specimens...
...driving to work today, I thought of your story "Is This Vehicle Safe?"--about the propensity of sport-utility vehicles to turn over [BUSINESS, Oct. 2]. I was being passed by scores of SUVs at speeds of up to 80 m.p.h., some even faster. Perhaps the question we should be asking is, "Are These Drivers Safe?" Certainly if the tread on a tire separates or there is a design flaw in an automobile, the manufacturers bear some responsibility if people are injured or killed. I think drivers also bear some responsibility if the manner in which they drive endangers themselves...
...addition to the impressive displays of rowing ability, spectators are also drawn to the regatta by a wide assortment of food vendors and corporate-sponsored tents and activities. This year, Charles Schwab, EDS, Sprint, and Polo Sport, are some of the companies who will help finance this once-a-year crew extravaganza...