Word: prizefight
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...Jersey wants to be Las Vegas, but it falls short. Mike Tyson can tell you that. Kicked out of boxing for munching Evander Holyfield's ear in a prizefight at the MGM Grand on June 28, 1997, he asked forgiveness in New Jersey earlier this summer, but the devil entered him and cussed like a sailor...
...damaged men on the far side of violence. The viewpoint doesn't vary much: a straight-on, wondering stare back through the wreckage. The narrator of the superb title story cripples another Marine in a squabble during training, survives three tours of combat in Vietnam, then, overmatched in a prizefight and too stubborn to fall down, outpoints his opponent but suffers brain damage that leads to worsening epilepsy. "What a goddamn fool," he says of himself. He wrestles with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche without improving on this assessment. In Rome he has seen the statue of a broken-nosed, middle-aged...
...rejected as too expensive.) And the 47-room weekend cottage in Greenwich, Conn., that Trump bought for $2 million. And the Boeing 727 jetliner and six helicopters. And much, much more. And whenever Trump wants to see his name in print, there is always some new prizefight to sponsor, or next spring's bicycle race that will roam from Trump Tower in Manhattan to Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and will be called -- what else? -- the Tour de Trump...
...conscious stylist, Smith relies strongly on emotional echoes and calibrated suspense. He also seems keenly aware of his story's film potential. No producer will be confused by the tense hunting scene, the Indian dance that mocks the white man's efforts to saddle atomic energy, the Rocky-like prizefight that pits Pena against a younger opponent, an eerie trip with a radioactive cargo, and a climactic battle to the death next to the Bomb in the last minutes before the blast. Smith is also capable of subtler effects. His spare prose shapes images that contain haunting affinities: wild horses...
...blue, orange, raspberry and green. "We'd better get a fire extinguisher," said Press Secretary Larry Speakes. Portraits of George and Martha Washington stared down on sound technicians who padded below in their Nikes. With the lights full ablaze, the atmosphere was, as Donaldson suggested, something like a prizefight...