Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FILM appears not to take itself seriously as a musical comedy although Harry Nilsson's songs are plentiful, appropriate and tuneful. Even in the most lightweight musical, one or two songs often transcend the limits of the plot and stand on their own merits. None of the new songs in Popeye however, are likely to outlast the film...
...nearly a decade there has been no figure in boxing as fearsome as Roberto Duran, the Panamanian primitive with the famous "hands of stone." It was not merely his daunting record: 72 victories during a 13-year career (55 by knockouts), a single loss, championships in both lightweight and welterweight divisions. It was how Duran fought: with a burning-eyed fury that was atavistic, nihilistic, merciless in his rage to win. When he defeated Sugar Ray Leonard last June to strip the Olympic hero of his welterweight crown, Duran at last won recognition as not only the fiercest but perhaps...
...physician, found the words. Throughout Duran's career, he explained, the fighter had endured agonizing diets to meet the strict requirements of his weight divisions. Often he ballooned more than 30 lbs. between fights and had to starve and sweat away the excess weight. Duran relinquished his lightweight crown in 1978, after 12 successful title defenses, so he could move into the heavier welterweight division...
This album will either disorient or enlighten Jackson's old fans, and ought to attract some aesthetes who had dismissed him as a lightweight; he has grown as a poet and musician. The idols in his world are no longer the women he loses; nor are they the misfits or the blacks and whites battling for a nonexistent ideal. Instead, he praises the kids who have gone 'beat crazy'. By living in music, dressing as they please, and ignoring the world's attempts to involve them in World War III, they prove to be the only one pursuing attainable...
Last spring, Harvard sports fans followed the fortunes of their favorite teams with a certain bewilderment. Among men's squads, for instance, the Crimson won four championships in the spring--in baseball, lacrosse, heavyweight crew and lightweight crew...