Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sleek Cuban boxing machine, Teofilo Stevenson, 29, won his third straight heavyweight boxing championship-although for the first time in his Olympic career, two opponents actually lasted the full three rounds. In the finals Pyotr Zayev, a stocky (5 ft. 10 in., 191 Ibs.) Soviet, even had the audacity to hit the towering (6 ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.) Stevenson a few times before the inevitable loss...
...boxing preliminaries lacked the razzle-dazzle supplied by Sugar Ray Leonard and four other U.S. gold medalists in 1976. But Teofilio Stevenson, 29, was once again on hand to play wrecking ball to the heavyweight division. Although rumored to be out of shape, the regal Cuban knocked out his first opponent, Nigerian Solomon Ataga, with one lethal right-hand punch and then considerately helped him to his corner...
This is no mean designation; but, since critics are explainers, not storytellers, Mailer is usually perceived as a heavyweight and Capote as a lightweight. The champ himself contributed to this view in Advertisements for Myself (1959): "At his worst [Capote] has less to say than any good writer I know. I would suspect he hesitates between the attractions of Society which enjoys and so repays him for his unique gifts, and the novel he could write of the gossip column's real life, a major work, but it would banish him forever from his favorite world...
...subway and told him, "I dig to sing." It's easy to forget just how long ago and far away that is, but network news was only fifteen minutes long then, people didn't know that cigarettes caused cancer, and Sonny Liston was not only alive but heavyweight champion of the world. There were no pocket calculators, and no Cuisinarts, and students ahd to wear ties to the dining halls at Harvard. It makes the Rolling Stones, along with Johnny Carson, Muhammad Ali, and Bruno Sammartino, our greatest eaters of artistic yogurt, the reigning Longevity-kings of our culture...
...women's squads took two firsts, in soccer and lightweight crew. But the quickly improving Crimson women also inched closer to Ivy supremacy in a number of areas; the second-place finishes in cross country, squash and heavyweight crew reinforce that notion...