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...have been caused by yet another controversy. During the competition, Breland, McCrory and Tate left the team's training site, supervised by U.S. Coach Pat Nappi, to work with Emanuel Steward, their private tutor from Detroit's Kronk Gym, home to pros like Thomas Hearns. Indeed, the aura of proto-professionalism hung over the ring throughout the week. Fighters met the press in postfight interviews attended by their agents. Instead of boasting of their knockout prowess, they projected their income for 1987; rather than discussing Olympic strategy, they talked about how soon a pro title bout could...
...aura of Mannian decadence that pervades the luxurious hotel suite--a reference to the hotel scenes in Death in Venice?--is brought forth with such powerful and unsparing force precisely because Israel peoples his film with everyman figures--the sex-starved ticket agent, the sex-starved auto mechanic the sex-starved doctor and his equally emaciated wife--and sets the action in America's backyard...
...offsetting a California defeat and securing his nomination. (The other states voting that Tuesday are New Mexico, South Dakota and West Virginia.) But if Hart wins the two pivotal June 5 primaries, says a Mondale aide, eyes rolling heavenward, "it will be a war." Mondale would have the unmistakable aura of a loser, despite his huge delegate count. "Don't overlook chemistry," says Hart of the convention cauldron. "Chemistry can overcome mathematics...
...Critic Susan Sontag has pointed out, cancer unjustly serves as a metaphor for the monstrosities of our age. In human discourse, it is the epithet for all that is demonic, mysterious and implacable in the experience of man and society. Given this aura of dread, these two serious books of medical popularization-the first is subtitled The Inspiring Stories of People Who Conquered Cancer and How They Did It, the second is an account of a pioneering leukemia treatment-represent significant acts of demystification...
...Kennedy death that was different. When John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, theirs were the public deaths of public men brought down in the enactment of large public dramas. The same aura surrounded the death of the first Kennedy brother, Joseph Jr., killed in a plane explosion while on a secret military mission from England...