Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credentials as a Latin Lothario by reading letters from female viewers inviting him to "invade me, blockade me, dictate me." An amber-skinned transvestite named Manny the Fanny gyrates to a dance-club hit while recalling her Krazy Glue revenge on an unfaithful boyfriend. A punchy Peruvian ex-boxer, pressed to name a famous Hispanic, searches the blank canvas of his mind. "William Shakesperez," he intones. "He wrote Macho Do About Nothing and The Merchant of Venezuela...
When a contingent of seven House members marched down the marble halls of the Senate to the Democratic caucus room to ask for a meeting about sexual harassment, they were told they couldn't come in. Said California Congresswoman and Senate candidate Barbara Boxer: "What could be more symbolic than that closed door?" Some Senators "got it" better after some sensitivity training at home. Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jim Exon said they didn't realize how serious the issue was until they talked to their wives. Said Boxer: "If there were more women in the Senate, they wouldn...
...number of adventure and romance; in England you dial 999 for emergencies (to reverse, perhaps, the diabolic effect of 666). Yet 9 also has an edge to it, the menace that comes from lying along a fault line: it is the number just before the boxer is counted out, the cat runs out of lives, the lover slams the door...
...divorce in 1986, was owed one-third of Gastineau's forfeited salary -- more than $100,000 -- because the footballer had "wasted" a marital asset. Nielsen, the mother of Gastineau's 19-month-old son, has left him to pursue her film career. Gastineau, once bent on being a professional boxer, is reportedly seeking work as a sportscaster...
...1830s, Christian missionaries thought they saw an opportunity to carry Western religion to millions of Chinese. American church members supported the missionary effort with their contributions, but the results fell well short of their hopes. Clergymen in China were the targets of repeated antiforeign campaigns, and during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, hundreds of missionaries and thousands of converts were killed...