Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...projects. "I have told my people," he says, "that if they can save substantial sums of money in banks, they will attract loan capital to improve commercial and industrial life." An insurance broker before being installed as Alafin in 1971, he is also a former boxer and soccer player...
MAILER also has Monroe "winning her films," but the metaphor of the boxer wears thin by the end of the book. Perhaps the most insight is offered in the section on the making of The Misfits, which coincided with Monroe's breakup with Arthur Miller. Mailer here is able to offer his most credible insights into the nature of Miller's attraction to the uneducated woman and, hers to him in his failure to deal with her consumptive insecurity, congenital lateness, and the cancerous dependence on sleeping pills. Mailer also offers convincing testimony that the key to this insecurity...
...immigrant Italian barber, Sirica entered Georgetown Law School straight from high school and financed his schooling by working as an athletics instructor for the Knights of Columbus and as an occasional exhibition boxer. As a semipro pugilist, he became a friend of Jack Dempsey's and accompanied the Manassa Mauler on bond drives across the U.S. during World...
...people at hand. "If we get an idea at 2 a.m., we call everybody and say 'Come on over and have some coffee.' " Run Run lives just above his movietown in an enormous red villa that is a replica of mansions from the day:; of the Boxer Rebellion. He also has a second villa, two apartments, a Rolls-Royce, Cadillac and Continental, and an eye for starlets. Runme lives in Singapore and is more circumspect, but has a penchant for horse racing. Together, the brothers Shaw have accumulated so much wealth that they have lost track...
...worst of the thoroughly reprehensible middle sixties "folkie" tradition. It was all there in "Homeward Bound;" its singer's over-inflated, self-pitying view of himself was combined with a banal excursion into sentiment. By the time S and G had reached the self-conscious artiness of "The Boxer," they had dissipated their creative impulse, aad were selling two million records at a crack...