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...BATTLIN' BRAINIACS...
Dole's transformation represents the third "new" Bob Dole of this campaign year. After New Hampshire there was Battlin' Bob Dole fighting for the soul of the Republican Party. Of late there has been Bob Dole, a Doer not a Talker, and now we have Bob Dole, Just a Guy Without a Tie. But Bob Dole, Citizen, may be the real thing, suggests Dole biographer Richard Ben Cramer, author of What It Takes. "His resignation," Cramer says, "puts him in touch with the younger Bob Dole, the Dole of the Russell High basketball team who would go and pat everybody...
Only pro wrestling, as perpetrated by Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, could provide such a uniquely 1980s fusion of chic and sleaze. WrestleMania's guest referee is Muhammad Ali; the guest ring announcer is Battlin' Billy Martin; the guest timekeeper, manipulating a tiny silver bell that might have come from King Farouk's dinner table, is Liberace. Pop Thrush Cyndi Lauper is "managing" Wendi Richter ("150 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal") as she attempts to regain her W.W.F. championship belt from zaftig Leilani Kai, managed by former longtime (28 years) women's champ, the Fabulous Moolah...
...Back Bay and parts of several other neighboring cities in Massachusetts's 18th Congressional district. By virtue of his position as Speaker of the House, his popularity throughout the district, and the overwhelmingly Democratic voter registration, "Tip" O'Neill can't possibly lose to perennial Republican challenger William "Battlin' Bill" Barnstead tomorrow...
...most outstanding of that group. However, even as lightweight champion, he could get bouts only by accepting the short end of the purse or by agreeing to take a dive or both. His last major bout was in 1906 in Goldfield, Nevada, against a young white hope named "Battlin'" Nelson. The bout was the first promotion of the notorious Tex Rickard, at that time a local saloon owner. Rickard, who was to become the most successful promoter of the era, put up a purse of $34,000 in gold coins and displayed it in his saloon. Gans, well past...