Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ropes of his career, vanquished W.B.A. champion Mike Tyson to become the only heavyweight besides Ali to win a title three separate times. By beating the supposedly invincible Tyson with an 11th-round TKO, Holyfield dealt a resounding blow to Don King's gangstas of boxing, not to mention the bookmakers who were happy to take sucker bets on the 7-1 underdog. "I got caught in something strange," said Tyson...
...didn't take long to get into the fact-checking groove. By the end of the first two weeks, I was on a first-name basis with most of the reference librarians at the New York Public Library, not to mention Jackie, the receptionist at the Trademark Hotline. I spent days checking things that authors had mentioned merely as asides: the price of glow-in-the-dark dots on highways ($3.50 each) and whether Buffalo, New York is named after the animal (no). The task was a tedious one but I actually found it somewhat entertaining. A former co-captain...
...Have lunch with Sonny Mehta. Find out what Knopf would give for autobiography. Be sure to mention Barbara Feinman...
...taught a parenting lesson by his dying landlady available in a fancy gold-boxed edition, but it has also spawned dozens of look-alikes and reprints. A Stranger for Christmas, The Special Guest, Certain Poor Shepherds, Christmas in My Heart and others all have the theme, not to mention the prayer-book size, of A Christmas Box. But, thankfully, some offer more reading pleasure. Julie Salamon's The Christmas Tree is touching without being preachy, and Maeve Binchy's This Year It Will Be Different is wry and warm. For Scrooges, there's even Revenge of the Christmas...
...were pointing the way to the millennium, the Speaker of the House spent the past few months in a tiny world of half-empty hotel ballrooms and news conferences small enough to fit in a hallway. At times, doing missionary work with the already converted, he almost forgot to mention the name of whatever obscure candidate on whose behalf he was appearing...