Word: manâ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Emile Griffith is an old man??now, but his round face lights up like a child's when he puts on his old boxing robe. He does not look like someone who would kill a man with his hands. But that's exactly what he did the night of March 24, 1962, during a televised boxing match against welterweight champion Benny Paret. Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, a documentary from Dan Klores and Ron Berger (USA, April 20, 9 p.m. E.T.), searingly remembers a contest that crossed the invisible line into a killing...
Is it news if a man??stands up to applaud at the end of a movie? It shouldn't be, not when virtually all the other audience members have already leaped to their feet. Yet Tom Freston's leg-stretch after last month's Sundance Film Festival screening of Hustle & Flow was hot dish to an avid press corps. You would have thought he was Brad and Jen, together again...
...twin breakthroughs?Beyer's surgical enzyme and Cohen's plasmids?opened the door to an extraordinary scientific capability. If they were used together, almost any gene?from a virus, a frog or a man???could be spliced into the plasmid. Cohen named
Theoretically such a vision should produce the government that Reagan has promised, the kind that governs least. If corporate America is part of nature?of the nature of the country, the nature of man???then it must be free to grow to its fullest capacity, like an individual. Tax cuts, reduced federal interference and other prods to Big Business (including the corporate character of the Cabinet appointments) are simply ways of making pioneers of businessmen, of restoring some of the old make-a-buck fire. Yet the character of the Reagan Administration will not depend wholly on his political vision...
...hustles to his typewriter and strums a slightly self-pitying ode to his own death by vegetable. In this column, he imagines an Associated Press report ?POTATO MASHES MAN???and broods about his friends saying "Poor devil, he never knew what hit him." "What did hit him?" "Haven't you heard?" Baker's high-wire act has never been snappier. He finishes typing and thinks about making himself a drink. ? John Skew...