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...Tyson added a cryptic coda later on in some comments that were distributed to the media pack by a pool reporter. The once-upon-a-time champ and fright figure explained the mutual-politeness pact between himself and Lewis by comparing it to the pigeons he now keeps in his spare time. They would scrap ferociously until they were fed, he said. Then they became placid and still. Intentionally or not, the metaphor carried over to the ring, where the issue had been joined and resolved, and the eight-figure purses enjoyed by both fighters had surely sated their appetites...
FIGHT, FLIGHT OR FRIGHT The senses become hyperalert, drinking in every detail of the surroundings and looking for potential new threats. Adrenaline shoots to the muscles, preparing the body to fight or flee...
...like it was their job by the time the curtain went up, getting it on under the watchful gaze of a room full of strangers was a new experience to most of them. Stephen N. Smith ’02 admits to having terrible bouts of stage fright before entering the limelight for his starring role in buck, but the challenge appealed to him. “I liked how [the show] pushed the envelope,” Smith says. “You can be as ‘actress’ as you want...
Stephen King gave his fans a fright in January when he told the Los Angeles Times he was going to retire. In 1999 he had a scare of another kind: he was struck by a minivan and nearly died. This month King, master of the horror novel, is publishing a collection of short stories, Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (Scribner). Is this really the final chapter? TIME's Andrea Sachs finds...
...that I'm in my new place, I'm still organizing my little kitchen. I didn't really need those 800 knives and 12 frying pans--or tools like my enormous fright knife. It had a blade almost two feet long and great big teeth. On my TV show, people liked to see funny things like that...