Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only the most expendable men are boxers. All of the fighters who ever died -- nearly 500 since 1918, when the Ring book started to keep tabs -- haven't the political constituency of a solitary suburban child who falls off a trampoline. Observers who draw near enough to fights and fighters to think that they see something of value, something pure and honest, are sure to mention the desperate background and paradoxical gentleness, which even Tyson has in some supply. "I guess it's pretty cool," he says, to be the natural heir to John L. Sullivan, to hold an office...
...last week, presumably by Palestinian radicals who have warned Arab officials against cooperation with the occupiers. A day earlier, a nine-month- old Palestinian girl lost her left eye to an Israeli rubber bullet fired during a clash between soldiers and protesters. Two days later, a Palestinian was killed near Nablus. The six-month toll: more than 200 Palestinians dead, 5,000 wounded...
Huffington even comes up with a gay period for Picasso. In 1898, she claims, during a visit to the mountains near Horta, he fell in love with an unnamed gypsy boy. The high-sierra idyll is padded with imagined dialogue and trills of swoony prose, but not one scrap of solid evidence is given...
...occupied after weeks of bloody fighting in February 1986. An estimated 20,000 Iranian troops were routed; 3,000 were killed, wounded or captured. A day after the Fao disaster, Iranian naval forces clashed in the gulf with U.S. ships that had just demolished Iran's offshore oil platform near Sirri Island in retaliation for mine damage done to the frigate U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts. The engagement cost Iran six ships, including two of its four frigates...
...Maladroit, it is easy to forget how his hyperaggressive debate posture put a crimp in all the wimp talk. Jackson's dominance of the Democratic debates helped him narrow his credibility gap as a serious contender. There were also casualties from these protracted trials by rhetoric: Babbitt, plagued by near palsied facial contortions, and Hart, who returned to the fray looking like the portrait of Dorian Gray...