Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violent criminals by the throat, puts them in prison...and stops building prisons like Holiday Inns." --Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas), likely presidential candidates in 1996, quoted in the Boston Globe on Nov. 14, 1994. Gramm has clearly taken to practicing his rhetoric in preparation for tough debates against heavyweight contenders such as former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle...
...recent years, he's been a bear of an actor, a roly-poly pitchman and a clown connoisseur of everything edible. Now, once again, just call him champ. In the 10th round of the big fight Saturday night, George Foreman, 45, knocked out Michael Moorer, 26, to regain the heavyweight title he lost 20 years ago to Muhammad Ali. Foreman's incredible victory was an inspiration to his aging generation and proved that baby boomers still have some boom left...
...Nuke the world of boxing back to the Stone Age. Two-thirds (two-thirds?) of the heavyweight championship is in the possession of a 46-year old pile of blubber with just enough strength and endurance for one killer right (and nothing more); the other third belongs to the former sparring partner of a convicted felon...
...restrain his own abandon. He was so good and so graceful, he could realize his inspirations with tremendously controlled dexterity. The earliest of the Verve recordings are from 1949, and they end with a 1955 session in which Powell, his bass player and drummer close out with a heavyweight combination: Gillespie's Bebop and Monk's 52nd Street Theme. The Capitol compilation ranges a little further, giving a last glimpse of Powell in Paris, where he lived much of his later life, cosseted and honored. His version of Like Someone in Love has a reckless majesty that seems to draw...
...Mouse has a few other suitors for Disney's America on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, including Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer and some heavyweight dealmakers in North Carolina...