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Assaults by family members or lovers are generally excluded, as are injuries in the usual barroom brawl. Other sorts of provocation or involvement by a victim can also lead to disqualification. The New York review board recently turned down a man who had been stabbed by the pimp of a prostitute he was visiting...
...film makers seem stingy. Stories, anecdotes, often just images succeed each other in splendid profusion, as regal and surprising as the peacock that lands on the town fountain one gray afternoon and spreads his plumage in elegant display. There are family chronicles: a meal that turns into an intramural brawl, a trip in the country with an uncle on loan from the local funny farm, who climbs a tree, refuses to come down, and howls, "I want a woman!" until the nuns and doctors come to take him away...
...time. Finally, a compromise is reached. Reynolds will organize, coach and star on a team of inmates who are supposed to give the guards a tune-up game. Naturally, he recruits every psychopath in the slammer for his squad. Naturally, the game itself turns out to be more pier brawl than football-cruel but perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw the game. Finally, he turns around and wins it when he realizes what a victory will do for his fellow...
Most of the people at the Gaslight are regulars who've come to have a good time and do some serious drinking. In fact, sometimes it gets too serious. Several weeks ago, a small time brawl broke out when someone accidently nudged someone else with a bumper pool cue stick. It's not at all unusual to see several rowdies ejected or to find someone with a bloodied face on the sidewalk outside...
...Ferguson, 23, is a surprisingly mild individual for a man who makes his living as a champion steer wrestler and calf roper. Unlike the ornery, untamed cowboys of rodeo lore, he does not brawl his way from one prairie town to the next. His rodeo skills were honed not on a hardscrabble ranch but on a college campus. Even so, almost every time Ferguson grabs a rampant 800-lb. steer by the horns to "bulldog" it to the turf, or smoothly lassoes a speeding calf, he places in the money. So far this year he has already earned more than...