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...bubble-eyed but eschewing dark glasses, Hagler shrugged, "I'm used to bumps and bruises. I love a good fight." His daughter Charelle, 3, observed, "Daddy, you got a boo-boo, huh?" He laughed at that. "She's so honest." So is he, brutally. "Tommy was very cocky, and I had something for him. This is what you call a sweet victory. I wanted to do it better than Leonard. Tommy predicted the third round: that was the prize. I done did what I had to do. I'm not a politician. I'm a fighter." The next morning, touching...
...adult life on college campuses, teaching and writing: poems, critical essays, reviews, a novel (Pictures from an Institution), translations and children's books. His visible eccentricities were mild. He appeared vain about his looks. As a young man, he turned himself out like a river boat gambler, slim, dark, natty and sporting a pencil mustache; in his late 30s he raised a bushy, patriarchal beard. When he was excited, his high, piercing voice had a tendency to rise in volume and exaggerate his Tennessee twang. For the most part, though, he kept his inner fires banked behind a fa?...
...less than a banner year. No new Amadeus, The Real Thing, Cats or Nicholas Nickleby, no groundbreaking experience, has emerged to take the West End and then America by acclaim. The difference is that when Broadway falters, production slows to a trickle and half the theaters are dark. In London there is always plenty to see, including, at the moment, as many American musicals as on Broadway, at roughly a third of Broadway prices. Shows open and close more quickly in London than in New York City, where financial success usually depends on a long run: visitors earlier this summer...
...soul, the presidency will inexorably be changed. Though there has been more medical, physical and psychological speculation about Reagan in these past days than ever before, there is no way to chart the future. In hindsight it appears that John Kennedy's persistent back troubles sometimes plunged him into dark moods that were reflected in his grim assessments of Soviet power. Eisenhower's string of illnesses surely drained him of the vitality so essential in the presidency to press on against critics and adversaries. Many of the modern problems of race, environment and cities began to emerge during his tenure...
When Yoshitaka Kawamoto came to, the classroom was very dark, and he was lying under the debris of the crushed school building. In those days most Japanese buildings were made of wood; when the Bomb dropped, all but one or two of the structures that stood near the hypo-center of the explosion were flattened like paper hats. Kawamoto's school, the Hiroshima Prefectural First Middle School, stood only 800 meters, a mere half-mile, from the hypocenter. Two-thirds of his classmates were killed instantly where they sat at their desks. Some who survived were weeping and calling...