Word: bantamweights
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...season to mint money. Hollywood traditionally saves its big comedies for Christmas and, almost invariably, fills its stockings with hits. In 1980, for example, a trio of holiday comediesying home with their new video games. This season moviemakers are playing by the old rules, with bantamweight farces and mellow romantic comedies that are luring sizable audiences to the local Cineplex. The class comedy act is Tootsie, in which Dustin Hoffman winningly proves that an actor's life is a drag. But there are other new comedies aiming to answer the moguls' prayer: that this Christmas will be business as usual...
...Bruce has frequently, and unfairly, been used as a stick to deliver a few critical raps on Billy's noggin. Much more interesting is the fact that, in parlous economic times, when the record business is suffering heavy sales deprivation and audiences are supposed to want only bantamweight escapism, two serious, ambitious, even dour, albums have scored big by hanging tough...
...record, The Man with the Golden Gun finds Bond chasing around Southeast Asia in pursuit of an assassin named Scaramanga who gets $1 million per contract for the use of his gold weapon. There is the usual action (fights, pursuits, assignations), the usual bantamweight grotesqueries. Scaramanga's evil henchman is a dwarf, and Scaramanga himself (Christopher Lee), an unusually unimpressive villain, would be a dead cinch to spot on a beach since he has three nipples. Nothing much happens to any of these characters that has not happened before, and better. Maud Adams and Britt Ekland do, however, make...
There were certainly no chickens in the ring. Napoles, who is called "Man-tequilla" because his style is "smooth as butter," owns the best knockout record (47 in 69 bouts) in welterweight history. He and Lewis shared the bill with World Bantamweight Champion Rubén ("Mister K.O.") Olivares and Jesús ("Little Poison") Pimentel, who staged a fast and furious slugfest before Olivares beat Pimentel into submission in the tenth round, scoring his 63rd knockout in 69 fights. Both men are typical of the host of hungry little fighters, most of them from Latin America and Asia...
...shabby cynicism, Wallace set Nixon up like a good bantamweight working out a deadly series of combinations. For the past month he let rumors build that he was going to challenge federal integration requirements, and fed the rumors by pushing a $1,500,000 bill in the state legislature that would fund 200 additional state troopers for the coming school year...