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...separated when he was young, and his mother, Dionisia Pacquiao, raised her six children on her paltry income from a series of odd jobs. Manny helped out by selling bread and taking in laundry, but in his spare time he would do gofer work at the local gym or pound cardboard boxes filled with clothes - his first makeshift punching bag. Wiry, tanned and talkative, 54-year-old Dionisia nowadays lives next door to Pacquiao's new house, in a smaller place her son bought her. She leaves little doubt who her favorite child is: "He is like a Xerox copy...
...know what to make of the costumes, designed by Jane H. Van Cleef ’06. While the play is set in modern dress, and the Lords wear inoffensive suits, the fairies wear a ridiculous array of rags that seem to have been bought for a dollar a pound at a consignment shop and then dragged through the mud several times. The result is suitably strange, but also a little baffling; why would the aristocratic and starchy Lords marry women who look like mentally disturbed paupers? It’s even stranger when you consider that Iolanthe...
...despite his professed pride in his past profession, the six-foot five-inch, 255-pound Miami native has seemingly distanced himself from his wrestling persona over the course of his acting career, catalyzing an image evolution that he insists is unintentional but only natural...
...your two-volume course-pack for “First Nights” was the ultimate in oversized ridiculousness, our friends over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have gone and upped the standard. MIT scientist Michael Hawley has authored the world’s largest book: a 133-pound, five-by-seven-foot tome entitled “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom.” The book’s 112 pages showcases spectacular digital photographs of the tiny country perched in the Himalayas and required innovations in bookbinding (all done by hand) to put together...
...your two-volume course-pack for “First Nights” was the ultimate in oversized ridiculousness, our friends over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have gone and upped the standard. MIT scientist Michael Hawley has authored the world’s largest book: a 133-pound, five-by-seven-foot tome entitled “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom.” The book’s 112 pages showcases spectacular digital photographs of the tiny country perched in the Himalayas and required innovations in bookbinding (all done by hand) to put together...