Word: heavyweight
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...movement, such as it was, had only one (relatively) heavyweight American in its membership, the painter, photographer and objectmaker Man Ray. Its spirit was best exemplified by two foreign artists who enriched the New York scene by visiting it--the Frenchman Marcel Duchamp and the French-Cuban Francis Picabia. Their impact goes back to the far-famed Armory Show of modern art, held in 1913, which first gave a mass American audience a chance to see modernism...
That remains to be seen. One good sign is that despite his windy speech at the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco--which featured four movie stars, three CEOs, rock singer Peter Gabriel and former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali--most software developers came away optimistic. The big question now is whether Apple's hitherto loyal consumers will keep the faith...
Clinton and Bowles met four years ago, when Bowles volunteered himself to the campaign the day Clinton lost the Connecticut primary. Bowles soon became a heavyweight fund raiser in North Carolina, where he was a successful investment banker. He had been to Washington only a couple of times in his life before he moved up in 1993 to take over the dispirited, endangered Small Business Administration. His wife, textile magnate Crandall Close Bowles, stayed behind in Charlotte with their three children, which left Bowles with little better to do than spend 15 hours a day at the office. He invited...
There was also no way of knowing what would transpire on Nov. 9 in Las Vegas. Holyfield, 34, and thought to be on the ropes of his career, vanquished W.B.A. champion Mike Tyson to become the only heavyweight besides Ali to win a title three separate times. By beating the supposedly invincible Tyson with an 11th-round TKO, Holyfield dealt a resounding blow to Don King's gangstas of boxing, not to mention the bookmakers who were happy to take sucker bets on the 7-1 underdog. "I got caught in something strange," said Tyson...
Holyfield will never achieve the popularity of Ali or Tyson or even George Foreman, in part because goodness doesn't sell as well as brashness or menace or comedy. But there should be a place in the heavyweight pantheon for a champion who travels without an entourage, for a man who truly cares about others. Asked if he would like to train boxers, Holyfield recalled a painful experience he had while coaching the Holyfield Team, a group of amateur boxers. "I was working in the corner of one boxer, and when I looked over, the opponent was in tears. Turns...