Word: bout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Royal Albert Hall. He too got standing ovations, although many critics branded the work dull. The album is currently No. 1 on the Billboard classical charts in the U.S. Happiest of all must be LINDA MCCARTNEY, for whom these were the first two public appearances since her recent bout with breast cancer...
...comedy-drama Boogie Nights now prefers to be called Mark Wahlberg, the name his mother and father gave him when he was born, 26 years ago, in Boston, Mass. But the photographer wants a bit more attitude, a bit more of the old Calvin Klein pinup Marky Mark. How 'bout stripping and covering his crotch with his hands? "No!" yells Wahlberg's manager, the intrusive, Jerry McGuire-ish Steve Levinson. "I knew I needed to be here!" Later, Wahlberg is asked if he would have stripped. "Sure," he says. "Ask me to jump out the window...
...Chicago journalist Susan Schwendener, the symptoms were as familiar as the runny nose of a cold or the scratchiness of a strep throat. "You can't sleep, you can't eat, you lose weight because your mood's so blue." Schwendener, 33, suffered her first bout of depression as a teenager. She started taking Prozac 10 years ago. "The pain," she says, "sort of evaporated over time." By the age of 21, Beth Herwig, now an executive assistant in St. Louis, Mo., tipped the scales at more than 500 lbs. At 29, after years of yo-yo dieting...
Rawson recounts dozens of fights, his tales of perseverance peopled with corrupt referees, dirty timekeepers and guys with names like "Patty Irish." Rattling off the records and weight classes of opponents the way a preacher might cite lines from scripture, he relives each bout for me, gesticulating with his thick fingers and dodging invisible punches...
...backing of the entire vegetable kingdom, but he's not really that buff. Mr. Clean has the muscles, an army of satisfied housewives and cleaning personnel, and an apparent background in pirating (the earring), which could give him the edge in ruthlessness. What if there were a tag-team bout, with the Giant and Snuggles the fabric-softener bear facing Mr. Clean and the Trix rabbit? Snuggles is smaller, but also presumably younger and just plain mean as hell. The rabbit would be hurt by malnourishment, as he apparently did not eat anything at all during all the years...