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...Enter Smokin Joe Carrabino...
There was Meldrick Taylor, 17, who missed his high school graduation to make the team. Raised in Philadelphia, a city with impeccable boxing bloodlines (Smokin' Joe Frazier, et al.), Taylor is a good-looking fighter who can slip a punch, hit hard with both hands and move well. In his semifinal bout with Venezuelan Omar Catari Peraza, Taylor floored him in Round 2 with a straight right and went on to win unanimously. Nigerian Peter Konyegwachie gave Taylor all he could handle in a hotly contested final, but Taylor, surprisingly, won a unanimous verdict. His flamboyant teammate Whitaker...
...smoke in walk-ins," he says. "You can't put your feet up, and you can't talk." Nor, he might have added, can you set off firecrackers. A few weeks ago, Bierle, 26, and his buddy, Dave Price, 27, went to see Yellowbeard and Still Smokin'. They set off a string of ladyfingers while their neighbors in the next car were shooting off skyrockets. "Our hood was covered with ash," says Price, already nostalgic. "It was great." The movies? Who remembers...
...where they discover Moses in the bulrushes; France, 1918, where they frolic during World War Iand Dayton, where they peek in on a couple of querulous Wright brothers and help get them flying. The youngster, of course knows all about history, while the oft-addled time traveler ("Smokin' bats-breath! This isn't 1492!") makes up in grit what he lacks in gray matter...
...Education. "When I was a kid I'd go around with my father, and once I met this guy behind a bar room called the Pepper Pot, sittin' on a log, smokin' a joint or somethin', just relaxing. I was a little kid coming to bother him, and he just took time to tell me things about music. I didn't even know it was Professor Longhair...