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Boyd (who tips the scales at 205 pounds) is "pound for pound the best high jumper in the country," Haggerty says. In 1985, Boyd placed first at Indoors and second at Outdoors in the high jump...
...almost 210 years, the U.S. has muddled along without an official poet laureate. This lack did not noticeably hinder the work of such natives as Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Frost and Robert Lowell. But it bothered Hawaiian Senator Spark Matsunaga, an avid reader and sometimes writer of poems, including one called Ode to a Traffic Light ("Impartial traffic cop/ That blushingly speeding cars do stop...
Cruse, whose 1967 book "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual" prompted considerable scholarly debate on the role of Afro-American artist and scholars in America, told the group at the Law Scholars in America, told the group at the Law School's Pound Hall that a climate of "openness" in post-World War I Harlem enabled a great intellectual like W.E.B. Du Bois to communicate his ideas to ordinary people...
...penny, in for a pound. If for some reason you feel compelled to make a movie about a sadomasochistic relationship, and you show an attractive young couple shopping for a riding crop, then somebody better get to use it before the end. As it happens, somebody did before they started editing this picture for an R rating. But all that is now playing is the decadent decor, some menacing portents and a pair of actors (Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger) looking for their motivations in various chic Manhattan locales. Adrian Lyne, late of Flashdance, directed this silliness, and three writers...
...most immediate impetus for the development of the jet is military: the space plane could carry Star Wars nuclear defense weapons into orbit. It is also designed to compete with NASA's space shuttle, lifting payloads into orbit for less than $100 a pound. That would be a bargain compared with the shuttle's fee of $2,000 a pound...