Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FOREIGNERS living there, turn-of-the-century Peking remained a "Forbidden City." The pleasures of the hidden quarters, lying in wait for the foreign touch, only suggested the more refined, if more hidden, pleasures of the Imperial count. With their triumph over the native Boxer rebels in 1900, Westerners penetrated the political decadence of Peking. But beneath its new mask of subservience to the West, the reality of the old court, filled with power-hungry eunuchs, stocked with useless riches, was preserved...
Robert Barltrop-an ex-boxer and historian of the British Socialist Party -has written a vivid summary of London's early years. But he worries continually about whether his man was a good Marxist or not. Meaning: Is Martin Eden a crude but effective indictment of the bourgeoisie, or just a disguised autobiography whose motive was spite...
...hard to imagine that the boxer in the publicity photo with the Everlast trunks, coiled body, and baleful glare is the same Ronnie DiNicola sitting in the Lowell House dining room wearing a brown herringbone vest and smiling impishly...
...form, usually centered around one or two women, and dissolve just as quickly. In the Weld foyer, a few erstwhile musicians bring out guitars. Soon they are joined by a flautist, and they begin to play: "Heart of Gold," "Can't Buy Me Love," "Johnny B. Goode," and "The Boxer...
Kristofferson, who is 41 and nine years older than Rita, thinks of himself as world weary and is more entitled to that opinion than many. He has at various times been a short-story writer, Golden Gloves boxer, top-ranked college football player, bartender, janitor, helicopter pilot, Army captain and scholar. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Pomona College and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar where, as Kris Carson, he dabbled in pop music. After quitting both academe and the Army, he began drifting. At 29 he found himself in Nashville, and he began writing songs...