Word: knockout
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There's a joint exhibit of the Graphic work of George Bellows at the Boston Public Library and the Boston University School for the Arts Gallery. Bellows was an American Realist painter of the 1920's--he's probably most famous for his painting of the knockout at the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Anyway, his stuff is good...
Cambodia is in no better shape. With the arrival of the dry season in late January, the Khmer insurgents are expected to resume their attacks against Phnom-Penh and the few other major cities still controlled by the Lon Nol government. Neither side appears strong enough to deliver a knockout blow, and many more statistics will certainly be added to the already ghastly five-year toll: 600,000 Cambodians killed or wounded and one-half of the 7 million population made into homeless refugees...
George Gilder, 35, is a shy, conservative bachelor and the nation's leading male-chauvinist-pig author. He won the title last year from Norman Mailer in a one-punch knockout with his book Sexual Suicide, which derided feminism, exalted motherhood, and argued that men are fragile creatures who must be socialized through marriage...
...about teenage life in the '50s, is about Conrad Birdie, an Elvis Presley figure who decides to kiss one girl goodbye on national television before being drafted. Some of the songs, like "Going Steady" and "Kids," are classics, and the grand climax--on the Ed Sullivan show--is a knockout. At Mather House tonight, tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at 8:15 p.m. Tickets...
Muhammad Ali's eighth round knockout last week of George Foreman was more than a triumph over the former heavyweight champion. It was also a whuppin' of the powers of sports that stripped Ali of his title to repress his conclusions about the world in which sports go on. And it was an especially decisive whuppin' of the U.S. government that wanted him to fight not other boxers, but Vietnamese rebels with whom--as Ali recognized--Americans should have no quarrel...