Word: man-mountain
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What are people so afraid of? Sure, MARION (SUGE) KNIGHT, man-mountain CEO of Death Row Records, was released from an Oregon prison last week after serving five years for probation violation. But--discounting incidents in which Knight is alleged to have dangled rapper Vanilla Ice from a 15th-floor balcony and forced a record promoter to drink his urine--could a man nicknamed Sugar Bear really be so scary? Proving he wasn't blinded by rage, Knight told reporters, "The first thing I did was fire me up a nice cigar." Then he hit the Dairy Queen...
...ludicrous they look stepping into the conflagrations of men twice their size. JEFF VAN GUNDY'S dream is still unrealized. In 1998 the 5-ft. 9-in. Knick coach rode out a New York-Miami playoff brawl attached like a poodle to the leg of 6-ft. 10-in. man-mountain Alonzo Mourning. It wasn't his finest moment, but he escaped unharmed. This time, he wasn't so lucky. On Martin Luther King Day, Van Gundy tried to make peace between warring Knick MARCUS CAMBY and elbowing Spur DANNY FERRY. Camby, 6 ft. 11 in., swung at and missed...
...Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Year 2000, set up in 1966 (rather rushing things). It was headed by the distinguished sociologist Daniel Bell and included 42 leading thinkers in fields ranging from science to mysticism. One of the commission's prominent members was that brilliant man-mountain Herman Kahn, who published The Year 2000 alongside the commission's report, Toward the Year...
...physical presence without sliding into caricature. In part this is due to his finding a new model in the form of Leigh Bowery, a huge, soft, hairless, child-faced, pierced-cheeked performance artist who might, in earlier days, have modeled Bacchuses for Rubens. Freud's paintings of this man-mountain are done in a spirit not far from amazement: his + excitement in traversing Bowery's back in Naked Man, Back View, 1991-92, is so palpable that you'd think he was exploring a new landscape -- as, in fact...
Biographer Maisie Ward was entitled to a contented sigh when she finished Gilbert Keith Chesterton nine years ago. It was (and is) the most thorough account ever written of that man-mountain of modern English letters. But Author Ward's book was hardly off the presses before she began to find fascinating new bits and pieces of Chestertoniana. Return to Chesterton is her 336-page postscript...