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...never seen a famous bloke before," said Lorcan J. Carpenter '99, who is from Ireland. Others were skeptical of Hill's celebrity...
...Jackson is all grown up now -- married, with legal problems, moaning and groaning about the world like any bloke with a hard hat and a lunch bucket. During the recording sessions for HIStory, gospel singer Andrae Crouch, who appears with his choir on several tracks of the CD, took time out to pray for Jackson. Says Crouch: "My singers and I gathered around him and prayed that everything would settle and all the sparks would stop." The hype surrounding HIStory is more like a four-alarm fire, a marketing campaign that will blaze through Christmas 1996. Crouch should...
Though at first he resisted the idea of giving up sprinting, the perverseness of specializing in versatility appealed to his sense of justice and mischief. "In any walk of life, there'll always be a bloke more talented in this or that, who's smarter in some way, or richer, or faster, or just better suited. But can the thing that he was given be lined up against everything you've got?" At 6 ft. 1/2 in. and 195 lbs., much too thick and blocky for track, though not nearly brawny or flexible enough for the field, Thompson is ideally...
...explain his theory is interrupted by the sound of smashing glass and two bodies rolling on the floor. A very short and very drunk student (later identified as attending the Harvard Law School) insults a woman and throws his glass in front of her. Unluckily for the short bloke, the woman's older brother, eight inches taller and 75 pounds heavier, is close enough to take offense. "Hey! I got glass in my beer," exclaims a bystander as the bouncer and bystanders quickly separate the two combatants. The drunken student is bleeding profusely from having his face ground...
...were men's dresses," he explained later. "They didn't have big boobs or anything.") Now he boasted to the music press about being gay and claimed that he first met his wife, an aspiring fashion model from America named Angela Barnett, "when we were both laying the same bloke." Whether it was true did not matter. It was the image that mattered, and the impact that counted...