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...that he has arranged a July title bout between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, who has been lured out of retirement by a record $25 million purse. The warm-up fight before the middleweight bout will be the long-awaited grudge match between Martin Peretz and Alexander Cock burn. "We're billing it as Beirut II," says King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Only in America...' | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...with Israel, and to the relatively uncontroversial nature of coverage of Lebanon as compared to the more politically volatile events in the U.S.'s backyard debacle in Central America, than from spreading Jew-hatred within the journalistic ranks. And by the way--I read the Village Voice, even Alexander Cock burn sometimes, and I promise I am not "a rabid anti-Semite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review Miscued | 12/14/1982 | See Source »

...northwestern India. Roger Moore is darting through a busy bazaar, over and around peanut vendors, bicycles, carts, dogs and cows to escape his nemesis, the decadent Kamal, played by Louis Jourdan. Moore is, of course, impeccably dressed. "It adds the bizarre to the bazaar," he notes, with an insouciant cock of the left eyebrow. "Who wouldn't gawk at an Englishman in a dinner jacket running down a street here with a six-bladed dagger sticking out of his chest?" Does Bond survive? "Oh, I have a heart of steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: James Bond Meets His Match | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...then grab even the sense of injury for yourself. A devouring man devours all there is."), porcine Maxie of the sexual deviations ("if he should every be elected to office, he wouldn't put his hand on a Bible to take the oath, he'd put it on his cock")--we can see the classic Bellovian scenario shaping up: The world conspiring against the thinker with the twist this time of family acting the parts of conspirators...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Bellow and the Burden of His Past | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...most of the children are in the theater tent now-the "Khao I Dang National Theater"-milling and chattering with expectation. Then the bright pink curtains part, showing a backdrop painting of Angkor Wat. The xylophone plays the water-drop music. The dancers enter. The boys strut, the girls cock their hands and heads and do not smile. They glow with color, their dark brown skins set off by the deep blues, reds and greens of their sarongs and sashes. They do four dances, starting with a hunting dance in which a small boy brandishes a spear and tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Embracing the Executioner | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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