Word: jai
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...Jeanne Jai...
...Amato when Tyson was serving a sentence in a juvenile-detention center. It was D'Amato (played by an absurdly dictatorial, aphorism-spouting George C. Scott) who was determined to make a champion out of the delinquent. Tyson is played with an eerie emotional vacancy by newcomer Michael Jai White. Intriguingly, the actor is not given much dialogue, which serves to emphasize Tyson's position as little more than a pawn of handlers like promoter Don King, whom Paul Winfield plays as a man of charismatic turpitude...
...movie about the former heavyweight champ portraysMike Tysonas an emotionally vacant young man devoid of any inner drive to win. With George C. Scott as trainer Cus D'Amato, Paul Winfield as Don King and newcomer Michael Jai White as Tyson, the movie shows "Iron Mike without an iron will" says TIME reviewer Gina Bellafante. However, it fails to offer any insight into the boxer's psychology. "Fallen heroes always retain a certain mystery, but they needn't be this inscrutable."Previous TIME Daily
...those numbers you learn early on in life, its square root being 12. It is also the average speed of wafted ball in a jai alai match, the average number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie roll pop and the average poundage of food wasted on a Wednesday in any given Harvard dining hall...