Word: newman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight fans think they might see Bowe under some strain in a matchup with Lennox Lewis, the British boxer who defeated him in the 1988 Olympics. Lewis, another 6-ft. 5-in. power tower, inherited one of Bowe's three heavyweight titles after Bowe and his manager-mentor, Rock Newman, rejected the World Boxing Council's timetable for a fight with the Brit. Lewis has defended the W.B.C. title twice, but he hasn't performed as impressively as his American rival...
...Rock Newman, a fast-talking assistant to boxing promoter Butch Lewis, thought Bowe was getting a bum deal. When Lewis stopped pursuing the young fighter, Newman decided to manage Bowe himself. His first priority was to recruit Eddie Futch. The legendary trainer, who had heard the "Riddick- ulous" rumors, wasn't interested in the job. At 78, he told Newman, he didn't have the time to waste. But a meeting with Bowe changed his mind. "He was big and he looked like a man," says Futch. "But he was only 20, and I realized something that the others didn...
Fogg Art Museum. "American Painting at Mid-Century: Highlights from a Private Collection" considers tht vital moment in the history of avant-garde painting in New York by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Barnett Newman. Through...
...case it fails -- needed backing up with more powerful work than this show could obtain. And the hanging can be awful; if you want to see two groups of excellent paintings kill each other, take a look at the room in which Mark Rothko's horizontals and Barnett Newman's vertical zips are left to slug...
...much hyped premiere of Late Show with David Letterman included Tom Brokaw grabbing cue cards, Bill Murray spray-painting furniture and Paul Newman looking for singing cats. It was all very gratifying to CBS executives, , especially after they saw the resulting numbers. Letterman's show delivered a huge 32% audience share the first night and 25% the next night. On Tuesday night, Jay Leno's Tonight Show tumbled to an all-time nonrepeat low rating of 3.5 with a 10% share. Advertisers are snapping up Late Show time, and on Wednesday CBS's stock leaped...