Word: ironization
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Compared to some health clubs, Harva4rd's gym looks like a nineteenth century European zoo--the overcrowding, the iron bars, the stench. Harvard students know this as "the MAC," short for Malkin Athletic Center, the abyss where the masses are condemned to sweat and toil...
Some fans say Bowe won't be truly tested until he takes on Mike Tyson, the onetime knockout bully who is behind bars for rape. "Iron Mike" is eligible for parole in May 1995 but probably won't fight again -- if at all -- before the end of that year. Says Muhammad Nassardeen, a black businessman from Inglewood, California, who recently gave Bowe an award recognizing him as a positive role model for black youths: "If Tyson never fights again, it puts a little shadow on Riddick...
...Halloween night just before the witching hour, I rose from Biology texts and stumbled across the Yard. Dressed in a purple rubberized rain suit from head to toe, I set off to the Old Burying Ground in search of the occult. The rain was falling in sheets. Leaping the iron fence with little finesse, I landed, fully expecting the Prince of Darkness to be waiting. I sat by a tree and watched as rain drops landed on silent tombstones. My adventurous spirit began to subside as the reality of this evening began to sink in. There were no witches...
Zampano is a bully at best. He calls himself an artist, but really he is nothing but a circus sideshow performer. He works by himself, travelling from town to town and breaking iron chains with his chest muscles. Gelsomina rides in the motorcycle's sidecar and keeps house for Zampano. He also trains her to blow a trumpet and give the drum roll which announce his presence on stage. He beats her with a switch and curses at her until she gets it right...
Almost all of the cosmic matter that survives to hit the Earth is nothing more than a curiosity. A mysterious lump of iron is found in a cornfield; a twenty-two pound rock appears amid the demolished trunk of a car in Peekskill, New York just last year. The Harvard Geological Museum contains dozens of examples, carefully classified by composition, ranging from a few ounces to over a hundred pounds...