Word: gloveless
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...GLOVELESS MARRIAGE...
...over. By night he is back on his side of the border trying to recover, and doesn't show for the next day's tournament. Whether he will fight again any time soon is unsure, but by age 24, boxers are often approaching career's end in the gloveless ring. Chinaka's manager and trainer know it: they're busying themselves with a new crop of fighters to replace him. Chinaka's battles may be coming to a finish, but the fights...
Many feet of film are dedicated to Joseph's gloveless boxing matches. (Remember, this is the turn of the century.) And even Nicole Kidman's Shannon stabs her love-to-be with a pitchfork early in the movie. Poor Joe gets injured so often that it's a wonder his internal organs remain intact...
...proving that she can cope with any physical hardship. As she says of herself, "I do or die. I never cancel out." Certainly she has had plenty of excuses. In Yellowstone National Park she sat through a seemingly interminable speech by Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, her hands gloveless and numb as sleet pelted the frozen, huddled crowd. In Billings, Mont., a 40-m.p.h. wind ripped down the WELCOME PAT banner at the airport, left the assembled Crow Indians shivering in their buckskins, and carried away Pat's words in spite of the microphone in front...
...bold" and "modern" a social arbiter as Amy Vanderbilt, who last year went so far as to sometimes permit picking up chicken bones by hand (a custom she personally practices only at picnics), warns that "it is still not true that if one goes hatless, one also goes gloveless" and insists "they should be worn to complete a street or evening costume." For eating hors d'oeuvres, "the right glove, at least, is removed or rolled back"; for dinner, "both gloves are removed completely." Particularly if there are chicken bones to pick...