Word: robertos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sugar Ray Leonard won an eight-round technical knockout to regain his WBC crown from Roberto Duran in New Orleans' Superdome last night. Duran subsequently announced his retirement from boxing...
Reported by Lee Griggs/Wiesbaden and Roberto Suro/Washington
...conveniently transcend the fray. There is no room for a Michael Harrington, a Herbert Marcuse, or a C. Wright Mills in Bell's scheme. Indeed, much of The Winding Passage attempts to discredit these idealists--and succeeds. In method, Bell is a tantalizing combination of Muhammad Ali and Roberto Duran; he taunts, he baits, but he never refrains from slugging it out. He punishes his opponents, and occasionally his readers, with an aggressive and assertive style. The prose of these essays is a relentless onslaught...
Thirty years ago, a U.S. Senator rose in the chamber to denounce the "illicit affair" between a "popular but pregnant Hollywood movie queen" and a "love pirate." The pirate was the brilliant Italian director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan). The gravid queen was, of course, Ingrid Bergman, who had arrived in Hollywood from Sweden in 1939, a hefty 5 ft. 8 in. of raw material crying out for diet, plucked eyebrows and capped teeth...
...late May the company's 15 directors were summoned by Austin to a special meeting. There they elected a new president: Roberto C. Goizueta, 48, a Cuban-born and Yale-educated chemical engineer who has worked for the company, mainly in technical and administrative jobs, since 1954. Most Coca-Cola watchers assumed that it would be a while before he would be declared the successor of Austin. At 65, Austin had been Coke's chief for 14 years and had already had his retirement postponed for a year, evidently to allow time to groom a successor. But last...