Word: smokin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there must be something else driving a man to run ten miles a day in the Texas heat, fight in backwater towns and suffer reporters' ridicule. Perhaps it is the memories, some to be relished, others to be expunged: the glory of Jamaica, where he hammered Smokin' Joe for the title in '73. Then, the next year, the nightmare of Africa at 4 in the morning, and the specter of Ali in the ropes, taunting him with a whisper, "Is that all you got, George?" before knocking him out in the eighth. Says his friend Norm Henry, a California fight...
...noon Sunday the crowd may have had its fill of calamari, for by far the most popular booth was Smokin' Jim's, where ribs and chicken were barbecuing in open smoke pits, then to be brushed with a brassy sweet sauce. "I wait for this fair every year because I know Jim will be here," said a local housewife who would not give her name. "I can't give it because I sneaked in the side gate. I didn't want to pay an admission fee because all I want are the ribs. I'm buying extra slabs to freeze...
...surge of Hollywood interest in Viet Nam. After Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, it just won't do. When a battle-hardened sergeant (Terence Knox) grills a group of new recruits in search of "winners, survivors" for his platoon, he rules out marijuana users right away: "If you're smokin' dope and gettin' high, you're not listenin' to me. You don't listen to me, you're gonna get me killed." That doesn't stop him, however, from picking an antiwar protester who claims at the outset that he won't fight. The point, of course, is to complete...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Joe Frazier, 41, former world heavyweight boxing champion and unretiring purveyor of the smokin' left hook; and Florence Frazier, 42; after 23 years of marriage; in Philadelphia...
...Smokin' Joe & Co continued to hit with sizzling accuracy--Harvard shot an uncanny 750 from the field in the second half--and built a44-31 lead with eight minutes...