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...campaign for a Georgia Senate seat eventually developed into a bare-knuckle brawl between Democrat Sam Nunn, 34, and Republican Congressman Fletcher Thompson, 47. As the campaign reached its climax, Nunn happily swung a devastating haymaker: Opponent Thompson during his six years in Congress had dropped 119 bills into the hopper, but not one had ever made it out of committee. "He's just interested in headlines," snorted Nunn. Nunn's ridicule was helped along by some Thompson gaffes. The Congressman, who pilots his own plane, at one point scheduled an airport press conference and then proceeded...
Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, Three characters in a psychological bar room brawl try each other and, then the audience. Jean Kalavski`s direction is admirable, while the social drama of a decade ago ranges from powerted deadly...
...carnival than a confrontation. To judge by reader response, Chilenos were considerably more interested in frontpage newspaper articles about a transvestite who had burned down one of Santiago's best-known brothels than they were in pressing economic and social issues. One recent-and typical -street brawl between anti-Allende demonstrators and police came to an abrupt halt when an abundantly curved girl walked by. The demonstrators broke into spontaneous applause, while the carabineros beat their nightsticks on their plastic shields in approval. After the girl disappeared around a corner, the fighting resumed...
...points as administration flunkies Dave "King Pin" Davis and Stephen S. J. "Super Janitor" Hall rushed in quickly to literally squelch Crime QB Mike O'Rourke in his endzone. This uncalled-for tackling, when a simple touch would have sufficed, emptied both benches and started a full scale handthrowin' brawl which took the better part of the first half to sort...
...York's West Side did not come without a prior. Harvard and Columbia smashed hands for four solid quarters, and, when the dust had settled, Restic's troops were a pretty banged-up lot. No less than 14 Harvard squad members came up with Jumps and bruises in the brawl and reported for treatment on Sunday. Most of the injured will miss some action in this week's practice preparation for the Cornell invasion this weekend, but isn't yet known how many will miss the Big Red contest itself...