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After concerts I have frequently been on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion, drenched in sweat, my shirt torn apart. My arms rendered quivering jelly from the abusive fist-pounding they have powered, my back and legs aching from the hours of standing and jumping without reprieve, I long for the relief that skipping classes the next day will bring me. I exit the arena proud of the permanent hearing damage I've sustained, relishing the ringing in my ears for days to come...
...Rabochaya Tribuna (Worker's Tribune) last week, "People accept rationing coupons and standing in line -- especially during work time -- but not price increases." And the housewife can now vote for a parliamentary representative able to stand up in the Congress of People's Deputies and, if necessary, shake a fist at Gorbachev on the podium. Preoccupied with the nationalities problem and facing a Communist Party Congress in July, he cannot afford another exposed flank...
...then Moscow's fist clenched again. Soviet troops, which had occupied Communist Party buildings earlier, seized government offices in Vilnius and installed a new chief prosecutor charged with enforcing Soviet, not Lithuanian, laws. Meanwhile, a senior military officer in Moscow said no offer of amnesty had been authorized and criminal cases had been opened against all deserters. While Mikhail Gorbachev had not cracked down on the nationalist movement, Sajudis, or the separatist parliament, his power play had rendered Lithuania's declaration of independence null and void...
...from Moscow, discovered that they could keep a grip on their jobs only by throwing in their lot with the nationalist forces in their regions -- actually representing their constituents' interests in dealing with Moscow. In most republics, it has now become good politics for Communist officials to shake a fist at the Kremlin...
...biggest upset in boxing history," but they could just as easily have said cinema history: a story like this happens only in the movies. To be exact, it happens only in Rocky movies. Douglas' shocking victory over the previously undefeated annihilator provided all the improbable thrills of a Stallone fist film. And more. Rocky never got the benefit of a long count, so that his opponent could later complain, as Tyson did, "I knocked him out before he knocked me out." Rocky never had his championship belt stripped from him, as Douglas had, hours after the fight, when boxing authorities...