Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more boxers weigh in on the thigh-high Detecto scale off to the side of the ring, the M.C. and three judges take their seats at a long table on the bandstand. A bell rings, and the casual visitor is startled to see the first contestants. Five-year-old Shawn Serface and five-year-old Dan Casarez are in their corners having their faces smeared with Vaseline to reduce the chance of cuts. Their hands are wrapped in gauze and placed inside huge (16 oz.) boxing gloves. Shawn tries to spit out the rubber mouthpiece. "I don't want...
...bell sounds. Dan and Shawn, all 90 Ibs. of them, start flailing at each other's heads. Dan lands a roundhouse right, and Shawn is dazed; his blank blue-eyed stare suddenly brings a hush over the audience. But after a second the boy regains his senses and goes on the attack. He lands a right jab squarely on Dan's nose; Dan reels and then stands perfectly still. In a moment, his face contorts in pain, fear, shock or whatever else a child feels when he's clunked hard. As the tears begin pouring, his father...
...Yorker?for which, to date, he has done 56 cover designs and innumerable drawings?Steinberg has erected standards of precision and graphic intelligence that had not existed in American illustration before him. "After nearly 40 years of looking at his work," remarks the magazine's editor, William Shawn, "I am still dazzled and astounded by it. His playfulness and elegance are of a sublime order...
...Shawn Phillips--Paradise...
Beling faced Shawn Bilodu, who normally wrestles at 177-lbs., in the unlimited bout. The Southern Connecticut coach hoped to take advantage of Bilodu's quickness, but Beling scored a narrow 7-6 win to erase memories of the Harvard team that Army blitzed earlier...