Word: boxers
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...four times). Tall and stately, with angular looks that let her play glamorous or plain, she specializes in emotionally austere drama but offstage is fun loving and approachable. She is living proof of the dividends that grants can pay. She vaulted into prominence playing the white girlfriend of black boxer Jack Johnson in The Great White Hope. It opened in 1967 in a Washington production financed by the NEA and went on to Broadway and the movies. Alexander has often worked at NEA-funded institutions since then, as has her husband, director Edwin Sherin...
...more open windows are needed to widen the author's world in stories and novels to come. The case of John Irving, droning on about wrestling in book after book, comes drearily to mind, and the hope here is that Jones, a former Marine who was an amateur boxer, has said all, or nearly all, he has to say about getting punched in the nose. But for the range of this brief collection, the author's focus on tough, self-wounded guys works fine...
Standing in the large--very large--shadow of Harvard boxer Doug Clarke, it's hard to believe what he says...
...season, but the family orientation will be ( stronger than ever. Among the configurations that will be explored in ABC sitcoms next fall: a widow trying to raise four kids (Thea), an unemployed electrician turned househusband (Joe's Life); a divorced mother of three (Grace Under Fire); and a retired boxer -- played by former heavyweight champion George Foreman -- with a wife, two kids and a job counseling troubled junior-high students (George...
Dershowitz, Harvard Law School's most high-profile professor, is representing boxer Mike Tyson in his appeal of a conviction for the rape of beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington...