Word: joe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plastic pantheon of action figures, there's Barbie, Ken, G.I. Joe and now...IKE? And KISS? The new dolls were introduced at last week's American International Toy Fair, along with several thousand other playthings, including a Barney that will talk back to you and acres of movie-themed gimcracks. Aren't Kiss fans getting a little old to be playing with dolls? Apparently not. "[Lead singer] Gene Simmons contacted us," says Bob LoMonaco, senior vice president of sales for Todd McFarlane, which makes the Kiss dolls. "This is the first celebrity doll we've made, but there has been...
...Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman. Four years later, the champ was beaten: "Through everything, Ali was a fighter. In his youth, when he...took the title from Sonny Liston, he was a dazzling, dancing fighter. In mid-career, when he willed his body through three epic bouts with Joe Frazier, he was a courageous fighter. Toward the end, when he paced his... resources to turn away muscular challengers...he was a thinking fighter. Last week he was an old fighter. He had to match the craft of his past against an opponent who seemed to have little more than...
...long documentaries (CBS Reports, NBC Reports, ABC News Closeup) were commonplace in the 1960s and '70s, touching on everything from civil rights to foreign policy. As for the stuff of tabloid journalism, broadcast news was much more like the New York Times than the New York Daily News. (When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe broke up in 1954, the Daily News splashed the story all over Page One; the Times buried it on page...
Sophomore Dan DeVivo (167 pounds) was forced to make an early exit due to injury, while 190 pound sophomore Joe Weidle was ejected for persisting in an argument with the referee...
...Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War's most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier...