Word: retinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leonard tore the retina of his right eye sometime after defeating Thomas Hearns in September 1981. He retired with only one loss and 32 professional victories, in addition to a gold medal from the 1976 Olympic Games...
...proved himself a gladiator beyond any discussion: a media child and corporate man (his purses had come to $35 million) but a fighter first. Hearns was finished in the 14th round, though Leonard was battered bubble-eyed. Eight months later, with only one small fight in the interim, the retina of that left eye detached. For six months Leonard brooded. Then last week he called assembly in Baltimore, where he had started. He had an announcement...
...lines radiating outward from the pupil, like spokes of a wheel. Finally, careful incisions are made along each line, altering the shape of the cornea and changing the spot at which light is focused inside the eye. In nearsightedness, light is focused in front of the retina instead of on it. An R/K corrects this condition by flattening the cornea so it bends light in such a way that images are more properly focused on or near the retina...
...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...