Word: third
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...Guest, 52, is the director, cowriter and costar of "Best in Show," third in a series of "mockumentaries" (a term he thinks is deplorably glib) that he has made about people who are losing but smiling because they love the game. In this case their eyes are fixed on the top prize in the Mayflower Dog Show. You wouldn't call them a statistically accurate cross section of American life. How many of us, after all, are literally born with two left feet, as is cowriter Eugene Levy's character, co-owner of a cool little Norwich terrier...
...platform diving is, it still isn't football. And Olympic basketball, while it is basketball, is Olympic basketball, a suspenseless, unsettling metaphor for everything ugly about American world dominance, as our arrogant stars steamroll over tiny countries at as much risk as one of our air squadrons pounding a Third World nation from 35,000 feet up. No, NBC needs to embrace the weird, surprising, freaky side of this panoply of minor sport. Think of the Winter Olympics, in which American viewers have lately fallen in love with the luge, not because they've ever used or seen...
...emergency shower and eyewash have been installed in the third-floor lab. There are also pipes to bring gas to the lab tables...
Harvard began the match in competitive fashion, taking the first frame by a wide margin. But after battling in a close second set, the Huskies took control of the match with convincing third and fourth set dominance...
...results of these polls have generally shown more support for Gore than most others, including Reuters, Gallup, and the Battleground poll. Second, the headlines are based solely on registered voters--a fact that might be easy to overlook, given that it took five or more paragraphs to discover. Third, Newsweek has lauded Gore with such headlines as, "Candidate's speech propel him to a lead," (August 19th) when the margin of error indicated a tie, demonstrating either an ignorance of what their polls mean, or a reluctance to speak about...