Word: prizefighting
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...make the actors seem to be talking with their mouths full of mush. Also there is an episode where Mr. Chaplin swallows a whistle. Each time he coughs he whistles and he cannot stop coughing. Taxis hurry up and stop, dogs overwhelm him. Hollywood also grew hysterical during a prizefight in which Charlie survives two rounds by dodging so briskly that the referee is always between him and his murderous opponent...
...Dempsey's lore of names there is also a town: Shelby, Mont. (1923 pop. 2,000). The way Johnstown had a flood, Shelby had a prizefight. Hankering to be a world capital for a day, Shelby constructed a 40,000-seat arena for a Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons fight, only to have trouble raising the $300,000 guarantee required by Dempsey's rascally manager Jack ("Doc") Kearns. ("Give Doc 1,000 Ibs. of steel wool," it was said, "and he'll knit you a stove.") Barely 7,000 people paid to see the fight: the rest crashed...
Aaron Pryor severed Alexis Arguello's hopes of becoming the first man to hold world titles in four weight divisions last night by unleashing a savage barrage of head punches in the 14th round to knock out the 30-year-old Nicaraguan in their junior welterweight prizefight...
...exclusive club," says Tucker. "We meet whenever we can and we talk constantly on the phone, discussing new techniques and materials." Each has his own preference. Smith loves old-age makeup, and Baker is fascinated by gorillas. Westmore knows just how blood should spurt in a prizefight. Besides Raging Bull, he has done Rocky I and II and the upcoming III. "If I haven't done every fight film, I've been asked to do every fight film," he sighs. He therefore found it a relief to make up Farrah Fawcett for a recent television movie. "I enjoyed...
...Imagine an endless prizefight with the world champ, as you wait, with muscles taut, ready to nail him when he drops his guard for the flash of an eye. Then you have a mini-idea of what it was like trying to keep Pablo Picasso in your range finder for a single...