Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comprehend Gay's jabs at Walpole and his ministers, nor do we have as much patience with the constant appellation of every woman as "hussy" or "slut". Not, for that matter, is The Beggar's Opera any longer completely successful as a musical parody of Italian opera, since the popular ballads that comprise its score are popular no more...
...ENORMOUS as one supposed ... Haystack Calhoun, the ever-popular 601-pounder from Four Corners, Arkansas, may be able to break four inch thick planks with his "Big Splash" submission hold, but he is no match for Johnny Alee, the 1132 pound man who fell through the floor of his North Carolina log cabin one hundred years ago. Nor can he compare to El Topicon, the Brazilian wrestler who is reputed to weigh an incredible fifteen hundred pounds, who is so enormous that he can engulf a two hundred pound opponent in his rolls...
...time wrestling there are anomalies and curiosities of medicine unknown to the Guinness Book of World Records. Bobo Brazil, for example, the ever-popular champ, has a skull that is reputed to be four inches thick. He inflicts a torture known as the 'Coco-butt' upon his terrorized victims. By smashing his oversized cranium against theirs, he is able to shatter loose bits of bone which drift into their brain over succeeding months. The lucky ones become basket cases. Others bleed from their ears and lose all control over their bowel function...
...constant hissing noise. He is having trouble rising on the list of contenders because many of the contenders who have higher ranking than him are afraid to get in the ring with him. No one knows what happened to his parents. Before it was revealed in the popular press that Howard Hughes had died on the way to a Texan hospital it was believed among wrestling cognoscenti that Hughes was engaged in a nuclear deterrent project with Clark. Since the "Skuzz-Bomb" can actually generate nuclear radiation through the process of exhausting his half-lives, Hughes believed that sensitive Russian...
Bruno is a popular champion because he refuses to take abuse lying down, because he fulfills the violent fantasies of his fans. He plays fair as long as he can, but when evil and the rules seem to conspire against him, when it seems he can't win any other way, he lashes out with his hands, or his feet, or the chain. The crowd identifies deeply with him. Seeing themselves threatened by unsympathetic laws, their their police handcuffed by the Suprem Court, their neighborhoods surrounded by hostile forces, the people in the crowd clamor for Bruno to rise from...