Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mike Tyson finds out whether he will be allowed back into the ring tomorrow when the New Jersey state Athletic Control Board decides whether to award him a boxing license. Don't start laying in beer for the Tyson-Holyfield grudge match, though: Iron Mike's a longshot to get back in, and his rambling, sometimes belligerent plea for understanding in a hearing before the board last week didn't do him any favors...
CREATINE A nonprescription supplement widely available at nutrition stores, creatine primes muscles to recover quickly from workouts. Users can thus pump iron more often and bulk up faster. The major known side effects are dizziness, diarrhea and cramping...
...installed in the parking lots, streets near the Russell Office Building closed off and sweeps by bomb-sniffing dogs ordered. There have been proposals every so often to tighten security at such an obvious target; for instance, to close the Capitol plaza to the public and install a wrought-iron fence around the building's 130-acre grounds, like the one that encircles the White House. But such measures have always been voted down in favor of maintaining the informality of access...
...then, during a stressful moment involving a nuclear weapon, having a vision of his little girl (Liv Tyler) in her wedding dress. The message here is: Explosions are cool, and so are sappy dads who normally hide their mushy sides behind tough-guy dialogue like "Let's chew this iron bitch...
...lanes of traffic and shatter bus windows. I have witnessed walls of white police officers dressed in riot gear equipped with tear gas, dogs and clubs and yet powered by much more. And I have stood between the two, helpless before the baying masses, but rigidly constrained by the iron wall of police...