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...that was then. In 1988 Tyson's life spun out of control. There was the marriage to Robin Givens, the death of Jacobs, a pact with King, a car crash, the firing of Rooney. By the time Tyson fought 42-to-1 underdog Buster Douglas in February of 1990, he was out of shape, and Douglas KO'd him in the 10th round...
...American terms he's a little Clint Eastwood (actor-director), a dash of Gene Kelly (imaginative choreographer), a bit of Jim Carrey (rubbery ham) and a lot of the silent-movie clowns: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Says Chan fan Sylvester Stallone: "Jackie has elongated a genre that had grown pretty stale. He's infused films with humor and character-driven story while giving audiences these extraordinary stunts that are unparalleled anywhere in the world...
...asymmetry of the available insults reinforces the oft-noted dilemma of women in public life: how to be business-like without inviting perceptions like "ball-buster" or bitch. O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark had to be remanded to the make-over salon where she was recoiffed and taught to make tender references to her offspring in public. Hillary Clinton, perhaps more than any woman in public life, has been subject to relentless review by the gender police. Even when she stood steadfastly by her man during the Gennifer Flowers incident, she was savaged for doing so with insufficient humility and possibly...
...would also be a budget buster. According to an analysis done for TIME by the Child Welfare League of America, the annual welfare cost of one child living with his or her mother is $2,644. The same child living with a foster family costs the public $4,800 a year. The average cost for the child's care in "residential group care," today's closest approximation of an orphanage, is $36,500. If even a quarter of an estimated 1 million children who would be cut loose under Gingrich's plan ended up in orphanages, the additional cost...
...beginning there was Mack Sennett and he created the Keystone Kops. And he said let there be slapstick, and there was slapstick, which was good then, but seems dated now. And Sennett begat Buster Keaton, who did physical comedy better than anyone ever did, with the exception of Harold Lloyd, and whose works are still fine (see "The General," "The Navigator" and "700 Brides"). And Sennett also begat Chaplin, who learned from him but went well beyond to become the finest comic artist ever, the Little Tramp who mixed laughter and tears. And Chaplin created "City Lights" and "The Gold...