Word: arena
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...single man and ratified by a handful of others." So said Brazil's losing presidential candidate, Euler Bentes Monteiro, but he was wrong. To the surprise of no one, the country's electoral college-heavily weighted in favor of the pro-government Alliance for National Renewal (ARENA)-chose General Joao Baptista Figueiredo, 60, to succeed retiring President Ernesto Geisel for a six-year term beginning in March. The predictable vote was 355 for Figueiredo, vs. 226 for Monteiro, who represented the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), the country's only legal opposition party...
...created a country drawn from the photo graphs of models in Sears, Roebuck catalogues, and the characters he conjured up were no doubt precursors of the people who dwell in his novels. But this memoir depicts them as they truly were and situ ates them in that inexhaustible literary arena, the bitter, impoverished South...
...stallion is back with his South Philly rabbit punches. In Rocky II-Redemption, our hero, played once again by Sylvester Stallone, challenges Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the boxer who beat him in Part 1, to a rematch. Preparing to film the final fight scenes at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, Sly, as his friends call him, worked out so long and hard that he had to be given oxygen and vitamin B-12 shots between takes. "Every muscle feels like it's been torn from the bone," grunted Stallone. "Yesterday I thought for the first time in my life...
Those same fans will decide this year whether the team's temporary home is a friendly or hostile rink. The Crimson's move to Walter Brown Arena means only the loss of Watson Rink, not that the icemen will be without a home advantage. It's a short trip across the river, a fair exchange for the three years of excitement Harvard hockey has given me. A year-long closing of Watson was inevitable; why not try a concerted effort to arrange bus service to games? I'll be there, and so will anyone else who really appreciates college hockey...
...tickets for the Grateful Dead, who will be appearing at the Music Hall on Nov. 13 and 14. The last time the Dead played Boston was at the Garden two years ago: a most disappointing show, due mainly to the cavernous nature of that ice rink/basketball court/circus arena which is periodically converted into a pitiful excuse for a theater. (A note to freshmen unacquainted with the Boston music scene: avoid the Garden at all costs, even if Barry Manilow is playing there...