Word: cottoning
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...Once the fight began, when Tyson made his customary first-round rush, and referee Eddie Cotton had to keep cautioning Lewis about clenching, it looked like a Golden Oldie was under way - maybe a standard Mike Tyson bash session, a victory by annihilation, like those of his heyday fifteen years ago, before some unexpected losses, a rape conviction, and various other scrapes with adversity had tarnished Tyson's edge...
...then a strange pattern began to develop. Cotton had to keep reprimanding Lewis - for clinching, for holding, and finally, once he had clearly begun to get on even terms with Tyson, pushing - an offense which cost the champion a point when Tyson was shoved all the way down to the canvas in the fourth round. In a strange way, the roles had been reversed. Tyson, flat on his back and forlorn, looked like a fighter down on his luck, shove or no shove. Lennox Lewis, the bigger man, almost seemed an oversized bully. But, perversely enough, he started getting...
...Stanford has a great advantage in the size of campus,” says Clare M. Cotton, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts...
...been confined to supporting roles. Back in 1984 she tripped up her transition to better parts by turning down the comedy Splash, which became a hit. ("I was insecure about the nudity involved in playing a mermaid," she says.) Another big break, Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 epic The Cotton Club, also starring Gere, bombed. "Becoming a movie star is a question of the right part at the right time," says Coppola, who also cast Lane in his 1983 films Rumble Fish and The Outsiders. "At any time that could have happened to her, and it could yet happen...
...picture here. We are talking postcard quality every time. As the sun bursts over the horizon, the mountain's jagged silhouette looms dramatically against the dawn's fiery palette. Innumerable hues of pink, red and orange are splashed about the sky, and are gently reflected on the cotton wool kingdom arrayed below...