Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boxing is never a beauty pageant, but the sport turned acutely ugly last week in Madison Square Garden when Riddick Bowe's heavyweight bout became an audience-participation slugfest. Bowe was clearly losing to underdog Andrew Golota when Golota punched him below the belt for the fourth time. Bowe hit...
Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) is the epitome of the easy-going, yet inquisitive town peacemaker--even his name seems responsible. Unfortunately, it's also the name of his legendary father in whose, enormous shadow he and the rest of the town, it seems, stands. The townspeople are happy to...
NEW YORK CITY: The Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota bout-turned brawl, left another black eye on the sport of boxing and may have delivered a knockout punch to professional fights at Madison Square Garden. The bout turned ugly in the seventh round, when referee Wayne Kelly disqualified Golota, a heavy...
"The girls slept four to a cabin, but our accommodations were like the Ritz compared with the men, who often slept on the deck rather than in the hold. We all shared one canvas tank in which to train--we would swim strapped to the side of the tank. Jack...
You feel it particularly in Cezanne's series of landscapes of his "sacred mountain," Mont Sainte-Victoire. Now it is a mere shimmer of profile in a watercolor, whose blank paper becomes the white light of the Midi, burning through the pale flecks of color. Elsewhere, in the late oils...