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...Hagler shaking apart and griping aloud for a different kind of fight. Somewhere Leonard found the legs to obey his corner elf Angelo Dundee, who set him to dancing like Ali, complete with funny faces and windmills. Hagler smiled sadly. Before the last round began, Leonard raised a beckoning glove to the crowd, and by following suit Hagler only confirmed whose game they had been playing. Two of the three judges saw it that way. Leonard waited until their pencils stopped and then collapsed...
...World Series between the Mets and Red Sox will long be remembered as one of the most dramatic in Fall Classic history. Undoubtedly the most memorable play was Mookie Wilson's ground ball that eluded Bill Buckner's glove in the 10th inning of Game Six, enabling the Mets to tie the Series and force a seventh game. What many may not remember, however, is how Wilson managed to stay alive at the plate again and again against Boston's Bob Stanley. For 3 bonus points, how many two-strike pitches did Wilson foul off before drilling the fateful grounder...
...Justice Department's contention that affirmative action should be used only to remedy harm to individual victims of discrimination. This time the department, which brought the case to the Supreme Court when the troopers declined to appeal, argued simply that affirmative relief must be narrowly tailored, like "hand and glove." Solicitor General Charles Fried denounced the one-for-one quota as "excessive" and "profoundly illegal...
Colgate goalie Wayne Cowley reached for the puck, but it slipped above his glove and into the right-hand corner of the net. Howley had his first collegiate goal. The announcement came: "Harvard goal by number 9--Paul Howley. Number 9? Howley? It seemed a little strange...
...every scene, is equally inventive. In addition to the lacquered, stepped "nite-club" stage, it features a side area covered by a huge venetian blind, which any self-respecting femme-fatale would give her feather boa to be seen through, holding a smoking revolver in her arm-length velvet glove. Aided by Greg Sullivan's lighting, director Deal stages images that always seem eerily appropriate, as if we all carried around the Judy Garland version of A Star is Born like a race-memory...