Word: canvasful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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And the picture is well made in a broad-stroke sort of way. Director Aldrich (The Big Knife, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Hustle) has never been one to linger over subtleties, but he has a good sense of life on the scramble in the less exalted realms of...
As cheers echoed through the cavernous convention hall, Walesa strode casually to the podium. Said he: "Over the past year, we have been learning democracy. Through this congress, we will be wiser because of the comments and policies made here." Someone thrust a bouquet of flowers into his right hand...
He wore only a towel around his waist, and beads of water were dripping off his massive shoulders onto the locker room floor. But while the rest of the Army football team was buttoning gray dress uniforms and stowing helmets and pads in canvas equipment bags, Gerald Walker was smiling...
For Leonard, victory was not easy. As the desert evening fell, the temperature subsided from the day's high of 96°, but in the ring, television lights raised it to an energy-sapping 97°. In this crucible, the fighters bobbed and weaved, Hearns stalking while Leonard danced...
I suppose Hearns showed a lot of heart in the fight. He was battered around the ring in the sixth and seventh rounds, and came out in the eighth circling steadily, firing his long left jab to keep Leonard off him. In the thirteenth he was knocked to the canvas...