Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nice ring to it. With the film sequel Rocky III scheduled to open at about the same time that the long-awaited heavyweight fight takes place between Gerry Cooney and defending Champion Larry Holmes, Leifer proposed to exploit the coincidence by having Cooney and Actor Sylvester Stallone pose together. Leifer asked Stallone, who lives in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades, to fly East. Meanwhile, Leifer booked a suite at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills, where Cooney was training. Stallone slipped into the hotel by a back door-kind of on the sly-and shortly thereafter a two-hour photo...
...then triumphs. Instead of working out in a decrepit Philadelphia gym, Rocky now travels with Creed to work out in a decrepit L.A. gym. Instead of falling to the mat with his dazed opponent (as in Rockey II.) Balboa now assumes a Bjorn Borg-like thanking-the-heavens pose after victory...
...search for a replacement would pose a much smaller problem if the spikers hadn't become so good. Palm's charges need a coach who can teach more than just the fundamentals. Harvard must find someone with experience in high-level competition rather than a physical education professional...
...induce kids to spend money all summer in search of a Tom Seaver. But with Topps having to fend off Fleer and Donruss in the card market, there are now two or three shots of Rich Gossage standing around looking cute, as well as the Rich Gossage in action pose and the Rich Gossage All-Star model...
...banana salesmen may seem absurd and even comical. Mostly though, it is terrifying. Arbenz's policies--essentially the legalization of labor unions and a modest land reform that expropriated only unused fields, including much of United Fruits holdings--were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react immediately and decisively against any perceived danger to the capitalist status quo, in the United States or abroad, became...