Word: kidded
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...Tyson's attraction to any biographer is that he carries epic achievements and contradictions within him. At first he was a variation on the proverbial 97-pound weakling: an overweight street kid from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He got beaten up regularly by the local toughs - "Very few of them," he says, "are functioning adults right now" - who lured him into street crime. As a 12-year-old in a detention home he was discovered by Cus d'Amato, who had trained and managed Floyd Patterson to the heavyweight boxing title in the '50s. Cus saw potential...
...Fourth of July or a well-tailored man with a mysterious past throws wild parties - and then there is Sag Harbor (Doubleday; 273 pages), the new autobiographical novel by Colson Whitehead. Not much happens in Sag Harbor. It's 1985, and Benji, a 15-year-old New York City kid, takes off for his family's beach house on Long Island, where for the first time he'll look after himself and his brother while his parents are at work...
...have to realize that when I was a kid, my father was unknown. It's only when I turned 18 that I really realized, "Wow, my dad's a big shot." My children grew up with a famous name, so it was tough for them. I never tried to push them in any direction other than what they wanted to do. So they both went their own merry way. My daughter has a Masters in psychology and my son went into environmental economics. After proving to themselves that they could do other things, they knocked on the door and said...
Yeah, you're missing out on a lot. If you physically can learn how to swim, you should start learning. Then little by little maybe you want to experience the third dimension and scuba dive. You're weightless, which everyone dreams about. When you're a little kid, you look up, you don't look down. You look at the stars, the sun, and the moon, and you want to go there, you want to take off. Well you can't. So, go diving...
...What about basketball? No, not classy enough. “Hey, who here plays motorcycle polo?” Oh, no. Oh, no. They’re walking faster. They know I can’t keep up—being an “indoor kid...