Word: boxer
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...free at musicmatch.com, plus $30 to upgrade to the fast-burning version). Success at last! But there were still problems. The program doesn't tell you if playlists are too long for the CD until you hit RECORD, and some of my MusicMatch-made CDs skipped like a heavyweight boxer. Real Jukebox (at Real.com, also free for basic and $30 for fast-burning) had a better track record, but only because the Real people sent me a software patch that isn't publicly available yet. Before that, it wouldn't even admit my CD-R drive existed...
...area around Mae Sot in Thailand's wild west is a tense mix of Thai soldiers, Burmese rebels and smugglers of jade, gemstones, heroin and amphetamines. A boxer calling himself Thai may have been born in a Burmese refugee camp and speak the language of the Karen guerrillas or the Mon tribesmen over the frontier. Crowds flock from Burma for the fights, some crossing legally at the checkpoint but most just wade across the parched Moei river. In this town of mixed allegiances and sliding identities, boxing alone provides a little certainty?without exception, every match is Thailand vs. Burma...
...Homecoming) off their projects; Woo walked out after Tsui re-edited three of his films, including The Killer. "I was not a good producer," Tsui admits. "The roles of producer and director should be like coach and fighter: the coach has to tell the boxer he's strong on the left or the right, that his eye's weakening, that it's time to call it quits. Back then, I got frustrated. I never learned the difference between producing and directing...
...Pfieffer’s sculpture excavates implications of this fight that younger viewers probably do not understand. Ali, the handsome, smug boxer who epitomized the multimillionaire sports figure, opposed America’s colonial involvement in Vietnam. This fight took place in Zaire, where opposition to the country’s own colonialism was overwhelming. Traces of Vietnam, racism, Black Power and colonialism are all evident in this short, repeating one round video. The display, a no larger than eight-inch screen perched away from a wall, does not even have sound. Without anything to listen to, this miniscule view...
When local police arrived at the temple, they unzipped the bulky, black bag to find the corpse of a young Taiwanese man, naked except for a pair of tartan boxer shorts wrapped around his head. The man had been dead for two days, although the cause of death was hard to determine. Murder was a given. Why else would the body have been disposed of so brutally and anonymously...