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...like so many of the greats, he could not get used to the relative obscurity that goes along with the title of "former" welterweight champion of the world. So he returned to the ring, each time losing respect as well as the fluid motion and lightning quickness that made him as sweet as sugar. Terry Norris, the man who brought about Leonard's last retirement, showed that the sugar sweet jabs of the former Olympic golden boy had slowed to the speed of molasses in December...
Levine's writing style is fluid and lucid. She fills the pages with witty and original analyses of interviews, overheard conversations, films, comic strips, songs, comedians, television programs, psychological/scientific studies, magazine articles and books. She covers a range of female personalities from Madonna to Mary Beth Whitehead to Ann Landers to strangers in the supermarket...
...Soak a Massachusetts license in lighter fluid for 10 minutes and peel back the lamination," he says...
...visible authority controls theseproceedings. Cat owners listen for announcementsover the speakers: "Will cats 156 through 162please report to ring three." The four judges worksimultaneously, with a fluid audience that swellsat crucial moments and dwindles between rounds.Spectators wander off to chat with the cat ownersand shop at the tables along the west wall...
...lies in its past. The second act contains two gratuitous slurs on the "concept" musicals that have dominated the past decade: a visual slap at Grand Hotel and a verbal slam toward Les Miserables. Yet those shows have precisely what Crazy for You so painfully lacks: propulsive storytelling, cinematically fluid staging, emotionally powerful character songs, and a sense that something urgent and meaningful is at stake...