After realizing that he and his sister played an almost-identical imaginary game in the car as kids, YouTuber FollowTheFoot was inspired: what are these inner contests we all have without really thinking about them?
But despite all the psychological and racial dimensions of the Ali-Frazier fights in the seventies, I now see that struggle on an almost purely individual level, as a pure contest of inner strength, athleticism, and will.
Inner goodness notwithstanding, this was still a talent contest and we wouldn't have patience for an otherwise saintly person who mocked the process.
The contest arena consisted of a clear perspex container (17×12×6cm) with an inner ring made from an upturned flowerpot with the base cut off (diameter: 7cm).
If a portrait is a contest, it is also a collaboration, intimate though unequal, and an overbearing artist like Cameron probably achieves the best results with a sitter who exerts some inner resistance.
There was something captivating about that 77kg contest, especially for those viewers able to follow the cameras into the inner sanctum backstage, where the lifters pretended to ignore each other while secretly engaging in an advanced form of psychological poker.
Is the New Yorker a better magazine since it gave up its valuable last page to a write your own caption contest that allows a few thousand people a week to unleash their inner Thurber?
Over the years, Enbridge has also partnered with the University of Winnipeg to fund an inner-city program for students, to Our.story.ca, a national short-story contest.
Release Your Inner Johnny Quest With The Hover Scooter We're All Pirates Soda Club Home Carbonator You're My Fave! Contest.
Meanwhile, the G.O.P. contest has shown that Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain have to struggle to keep their inner bullies in check.
