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...hooks The and I'll jab blow-by-blow you, dance then you script for jab the 9½ minutes of the final bout of III covered 14 pages. Says Stallone: "The fight choreography is very precise. Miss a step and you're in for a detached retina." In the three Rocky films the pace of the last round has escalated dramatically. The fi nal round in Rocky contained 35 blows, had 75 and III an amazing 130-in the same amount of time...
...some reason, people can be horrified enough by a boxer's detached retina to implore him to quit fighting before it is too late, and yet be strangely unmoved by photographs of a man on fire in a disintegrating race car. Hockey fights are a sports fan's idea of an outrage, and a defensive back's how-to book on spear tackling is considered obscene. Auto racing is just auto racing...
From the President of the U.S. to Roberto Duran, everyone called Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute last week to wish Sugar Ray Leonard well after surgery to reattach the retina of his left eye. And almost everyone wished he would quit boxing. "Right now, we're not concerned whether his boxing career is in jeopardy," said Mike Trainer, Leonard's lawyer and friend. "His left eye was in jeopardy-that has been our concern." The injury may have been suffered in the Tommy Hearns fight last September, though Leonard did not begin to see a "spot" until...
Three weeks after that accomplishment, Conigliaro was struck in the head by a pitch from California Angel Jack Hamilton, resulting in a fractured left cheekbone, a dislocated jaw and a damaged left retina. After a year-and-a-half of rest, Conigliaro--Tony C. to his Red Sox fans--returned to baseball and was voted comeback player of the year...
...ramblings about his travels, his finances, and--in elaborate, unsparing detail--his failing eyesight. The editors identify "the Thurber Circle" as Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Sullivan Kenneth Tynan, and a few other literary buddies, but the letters make it clear that the circle that preoccupied Thurber was his right retina. An entire section of the book is devoted to Thurber's correspondence with his opthalmologist, in which he generally has this kind of thing...